Consequences of fetal personhood
Fetal personhood law...
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Supreme Court Case
410 U.S. 113 (1973)
Justice Vote: 7-2
- Majority: Blackmun (author), Stewart (concurrence), Douglas (concurrence), Burger (concurrence), Brennan, Marshall, Powell
- Dissent: White (author), Rehnquist (author)
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Fetal rights vs maternal rights
Fetal rights vs maternal rights Fetal personhood bill Fetal personhood law Fetal personhood and ivf What is fetal personhood . . conclude that the right of personal privacy includes the abortion decision, but that this right is not unqualified and must be considered against important state interests in regulation.”
Selected by
Caroline Fredrickson
Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Law Center and Senior Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice
Ilan Wurman
Associate Professor, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University
Summary
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 la
