Roe vs Wade US Supreme Court

Facts:
Jane Roe brought an action challenging the constitutionality of the Texas
abortion laws that criminalize the attempt or procurement of abortion methods
except in cases of emergency and when pregnancy is born out of rape or incest.
Single and pregnant, Roe seeks the declaration of the unconstitutionality of the said
laws and an injunction to prevent the further enforcement of the laws. Petitioner
claims that, due to her difficult and unfortunate circumstance as a single pregnant
mother, she was denied access to legal abortion because she her life was not, in
any way, threatened by her pregnancy and that it is not out of circumstances of
abuse such as rape and incest. Petitioner claims that the said laws abridge her right
to privacy as strengthened in First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fifteenth Amendment of
the Constitution.
Issue:
WoN the abortion laws abridge a womans right to privacy and
personal liberty in choosing for her own sake the decisions on whether or not to
terminate a womans pregnancy.
Held:
YES. Although not expressly provided for in the Constitution, the First, Fourth,
Fifth, Ninth, and Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution strengthens a persons
right to privacy and regard it as a personal right that can be deemed fundamental
or implicit in the concept of ordered liberty. These concepts of personal rights, as
reckoned from the said Amendments, has extensions in matters of personal privacy,
acts relating to marriage, procreation, contraception, family relationships, and child
rearing and education. The Court held that these rights are broad enough to
encompass a womans decision on whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.
However, as the same aims to promote the womans health and welfare, the notion
that abortion can be practiced at any point in the pregnancy holds no ground. As
expounded by the court, at some point in pregnancy, abortion may damage the
exact same purposes that it stands for such as the health and welfare of the
woman, and thus calling upon the state to intervene and to regulate.