Roe Wade (1973)

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A u.s. supreme court case in which the court ruled that abortions (previously limited to those necessary to save a woman’s life) are legal, and any state law that denied the right of a woman to have an abortion in the first trimester (three months) of pregnancy was a denial of her right to privacy under the due process guarantee in the fourteenth amendment. until this ruling, every state had laws making an elective abortion a crime.

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