The Real World of Constitutional Rights: The Supreme Court and the Implementation of the Abortion Decisions
- 1 January 1995
- book chapter
- Published by SAGE Publications
Abstract
In Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton (1973) the Supreme Court held unconstitutional Texas and Georgia laws prohibiting abortions except for “the purpose of saving the life of the mother” (Texas) and where “pregnancy would endanger the life of the pregnant mother or would seriously and permanently injure her health” (Georgia). The Court asserted that women had a fundamental right of privacy to decide whether or not to bear a child. Dividing pregnancy roughly into three trimesters, the Court held that in the first trimester the choice of abortion was a woman's alone, ...Keywords
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