Roe v. Wade: Decision, Summary & Background | HISTORY
2018年3月27日 · Roe v. Wade was a landmark legal decision issued on January 22, 1973, in which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas statute banning abortion, effectively legalizing the...
Roe v. Wade - Wikipedia
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), [1] was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protected a right to have an abortion.
Roe v. Wade | Summary, Origins, Right to Privacy, & Overturning ...
2024年11月13日 · Roe v. Wade, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on January 22, 1973, ruled (7–2) that unduly restrictive state regulation of abortion is unconstitutional. The Court held that a set of Texas statutes criminalizing abortion in …
What is Roe v. Wade? Everything you need to know - NBC News
2018年6月5日 · Roe v. Wade is the landmark 1973 Supreme Court case that guaranteed a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy under the 14th Amendment.
Roe v. Wade Case Summary: What You Need to Know - FindLaw
2023年3月17日 · One of the Supreme Court's most famous cases, Roe v. Wade changed the way states can regulate abortion services by establishing new privacy rights for women. Learn more about this influential case on FindLaw's Supreme Court Insights.
Roe v. Wade - Center for Reproductive Rights
Analyses and more resources on the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and eliminating the constitutional right to abortion.
Roe v. Wade (1973) - The National Constitution Center
At a time when Texas law restricted abortions except to save the life of the mother, Jane Roe (a single, pregnant woman) sued Henry Wade, the local district attorney tasked with enforcing the abortion statute. She argued that the Texas law was unconstitutional.
Roe v. Wade | Oyez
In 1970, Jane Roe (a fictional name used in court documents to protect the plaintiff’s identity) filed a lawsuit against Henry Wade, the district attorney of Dallas County, Texas, where she resided, challenging a Texas law making abortion illegal except by a …
Roe v. Wade - Landmark Cases of the US Supreme Court
In deciding for Roe, the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated all state laws that prohibited first-trimester abortions. Roe v. Wade stood as a precedent for nearly 50 years, but in 2022, the decision was overruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
Roe v. Wade (1973) | Wex | US Law - LII / Legal Information Institute
The case involved a Texas statute that prohibited abortion except when necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman. The Supreme Court, in a decision written by Justice Blackmun, recognized a privacy interest in abortions. In doing so, the court applied the right to privacy established in Griswold v Connecticut (1965). At stake in this ...