The Feminist Movement in the 20th Century - Roe V. Wade (Legal Decision Date 1973)
ROE V. WADE (LEGAL DECISION DATE 1973)
SOURCE: Roe v. Wade, 1973.
In the following excerpt from the landmark legal decision regarding Roe v. Wade, the United States Supreme Court upholds women's unconditional right to have an abortion—a right that had been denied them since the late 1800s.
The principal thrust of appellant's attack on the Texas statutes is that they improperly invade a right, said to be possessed by the pregnant woman, to choose to terminate her pregnancy. Appellant would discover this right in the concept of personal "liberty" embodied in the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause; or in personal, marital, familial, and sexual privacy said to be protected by the Bill of Rights …; or among those rights reserved to the people by the Ninth Amendment.… Before addressing this claim, we feel it desirable briefly to survey, in several aspects, the history of abortion, for...
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