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Constitutional Law Keyed to Shanor
Roe v. Wade
Citation:
410 U.S. 113 (1973)Facts
The Texas statutes make it a crime to procure an abortion or to attempt one, except with respect to an abortion procured or attempted by medical advice for the purpose of saving the life of the mother. Similar statutes are in existence in a majority of the States. Jane Roe, a single woman, who was residing in Texas instituted this federal action against the district attorney. She argued that the Texas criminal abortion statutes were unconstitutional on their face. Roe alleged that she was unmarried and pregnant; that she wished to terminate her pregnancy by an abortion performed by a competent, licensed physician, under safe, clinical conditions; that she was unable to get a legal abortion in Texas. She claimed that the Texas statutes were unconstitutionally vague that they abridged her right of personal privacy protected by the Constitution.
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