Roe v. Wade
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Roe v. Wade is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. Decided simultaneously with a companion case, Doe v. Bolton, the Court ruled 7–2 that a right to privacy under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion, but that this right must be balanced against the state's two legitimate interests in regulating abortions: protecting prenatal life and protecting women's health. Arguing that these state interests became stronger over the course of a pregnancy, the Court resolved this balancing test by tying state regulation of abortion to the third trimester of pregnancy.
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See also
- A, B and C v Ireland (2010), the leading decision on abortion in the European Court of Human Rights
- Birth control movement in the United States
- Doe v. Bolton
- R. v. Morgentaler, Canada's equivalent Supreme Court decision effectively legalizing all abortions (while the Mogentaler case does refer to Roe v. Wade, most of the court's findings are more similar to the findings in Doe v. Bolton).
- List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 410
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