The Court resolved these competing interests by announcing a pregnancy trimester timetable to govern all abortion regulations in the United States.
The Court also held that the right to abortion is not absolute and must be balanced against the government's interests in protecting women's health and prenatal life.
In January 1973, the Supreme Court issued a 7–2 decision in McCorvey's favor holding that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides a fundamental "right to privacy", which protects a pregnant woman's right to an abortion. The parties appealed this ruling to the Supreme Court. District Court for the Northern District of Texas heard the case and ruled in her favor. federal court against her local district attorney, Henry Wade, alleging that Texas's abortion laws were unconstitutional. Her lawyers, Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee, filed a lawsuit on her behalf in U.S. McCorvey wanted an abortion but lived in Texas, where abortion was illegal except when necessary to save the mother's life. The case was brought by Norma McCorvey-under the legal pseudonym " Jane Roe"-who, in 1969, became pregnant with her third child. The decision also shaped debate concerning which methods the Supreme Court should use in constitutional adjudication. The decision struck down many federal and state abortion laws, and it caused an ongoing abortion debate in the United States about whether, or to what extent, abortion should be legal, who should decide the legality of abortion, and what the role of moral and religious views in the political sphere should be. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States generally protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion. 113 (1973), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022, in full) Douglas īlackmun, joined by Burger, Douglas, Brennan, Stewart, Marshall, Powell
Texas's statutes making it a crime to procure an abortion violated this right.Ĭhief Justice Warren E. This right is not absolute, and has to be balanced against the government's interest in protecting women's health and protecting prenatal life. Constitution provides a fundamental "right to privacy" that protects a pregnant woman's liberty to abort her fetus. The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. 1970) probable jurisdiction noted, 402 U.S. Judgment for plaintiffs, injunction denied, 314 F.
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