Roe v Wade (1973) - Today In Supreme Court History

This is the latest installment of my ongoing series, Today in Supreme Court History. Where we discuss a case brief of a landmark Supreme Court Decision to understand the basic history facts and law that are crucial to understand the Court's opinion and the case's significance.

Today we are looking at the controversial 1973 case of Roe v Wade in which the Supreme Court decided that under the14th amendment's due process clause, laws banning abortion were a deprivation of fundamental liberty and that the decision to have an abortion up until the point of "viability" is a decision to be made by a woman and her doctor, not the government. Virtually overnight this invalidated laws in 46 states that, to one degree or another restricted or banned the ability to have an abortion.

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