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Roe v. Wade
law case
Category:
History & Society
- Date:
- 1973 - 2022
- Location:
- United States
- Key People:
- Harry A. Blackmun
- Sarah Weddington
- Norma McCorvey
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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. In a majority opinion written by Justice Harry A. Blackmun, the Court held that a set of Texas statutes criminalizing abortion in most instances violated a constitutional right to privacy, which it found to be implicit in the liberty guarantee of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (“…nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”). Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme ...(100 of 772 words)