1971 - The Supreme Court agrees to hear the case filed by Roe against Wade, who was enforcing the Texas abortion law that had been declared unconstitutional in an earlier federal district court case.

Jan. 22 marks 52 years since the landmark Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision that enshrined reproductive choice as a constitutional right under the 14th Amendment, or the equal protection clause.

Its backers want everyone to believe that it will simply protect by statute the right to abortion that the Supreme Court defined in its Roe v. Wade ... said that the 14th Amendment protects ...

pointed to the 14th Amendment as the source of this right for the purposes of Roe v. Wade. However, this amendment makes no mention of privacy, let alone abortion: All persons born or naturalized ...

In Roe v Wade the Supreme Court held that a pregnant woman has a constitutional right, under the Fourteenth Amendment, to choose to terminate her pregnancy before viability as part of her freedom ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion overturning Roe ... v. Glucksberg, a 1997 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that found a state is permitted under the 14th Amendment to pass ...

The Supreme Court did more than overrule Roe v. Wade and allow states to ban abortion. The court showed how it views rights that aren't explicitly mentioned in the Constitution. WSJ’s Jess ...

The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is exactly like ... such as the right to privacy regarding sexual relations. In Roe v. Wade (1973), the Court ruled that this right to privacy ...

The iconic 1973 US Supreme Court ruling known as Roe v. Wade which cleared the way ... chiefly rely — the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment.” The opinion was joined by Justices Clarence ...

1971 – The case is filed by Norma McCorvey, known in court documents as Jane Roe, against Henry Wade, the district ... to have an abortion under the Fourteenth amendment to the Constitution.