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    Jane Roe, an unmarried pregnant woman, filed a lawsuit against the Dallas County District Attorney to legalize abortion in Texas, where it was outlawed except in extreme cases. The Supreme Court decided 7-2 that a woman's right to an abortion falls under the right to privacy protected by the Fourteenth Amendment, legalizing abortion in the first trimester but allowing states to regulate it more in the second trimester and ban it after viability. The decision was based on Roe's argument that states cannot deny individuals privacy rights and that a fetus is not a legal person, versus Wade's argument that the state has a duty to protect prenatal life from conception.

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    Jane Roe, an unmarried pregnant woman, filed a lawsuit against the Dallas County District Attorney to legalize abortion in Texas, where it was outlawed except in extreme cases. The Supreme Court decided 7-2 that a woman's right to an abortion falls under the right to privacy protected by the Fourteenth Amendment, legalizing abortion in the first trimester but allowing states to regulate it more in the second trimester and ban it after viability. The decision was based on Roe's argument that states cannot deny individuals privacy rights and that a fetus is not a legal person, versus Wade's argument that the state has a duty to protect prenatal life from conception.

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    Jane Roe, an unmarried pregnant woman, filed a lawsuit against the Dallas County District Attorney to legalize abortion in Texas, where it was outlawed except in extreme cases. The Supreme Court decided 7-2 that a woman's right to an abortion falls under the right to privacy protected by the Fourteenth Amendment, legalizing abortion in the first trimester but allowing states to regulate it more in the second trimester and ban it after viability. The decision was based on Roe's argument that states cannot deny individuals privacy rights and that a fetus is not a legal person, versus Wade's argument that the state has a duty to protect prenatal life from conception.

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    Roe v Wade

    Question:
    Does a womans right to an abortion fall within the rights to privacy protected by the Fourteenth
    Amendment?
    Background:
    An unmarried, pregnant woman named Jane Roe filed a suit against Dallas County District Attorney
    Henry Wade in hopes to legalize abortion. She lived in Texas and at the time, abortion was outlawed except
    in extreme cases.
    Roe Argument:
    violated the guarantee of personal liberty and the right to privacy guaranteed in the First,
    Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments.
    States cant deny individuals the personal, marital, familial, and sexual right to privacy
    Courts never declared a fetus a person
    fetus has no legal rights
    Wade Argument:
    The State has a duty to protect prenatal life
    Life is present at the moment of conception
    Unborn people should have protection under the Constitution
    Decision:
    January 1973 7-2 vote
    This legalized abortion in first trimester but left it up to states in second trimester and outlaw it when a
    fetus becomes viable

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