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Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022, in full) Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), [1] was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States generally protected a right to have an abortion.
- Burger
- Blackmun, joined by Burger, Douglas, Brennan, Stewart, Marshall, Powell
- White, joined by Rehnquist
Summary. At a time when Texas law restricted abortions except to save the life of the mother, Jane Roe (a single, pregnant woman) sued Henry Wade, the local district attorney tasked with enforcing the abortion statute. She argued that the Texas law was unconstitutional.
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Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), Rehnquist, J. -- Dissenting. MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST, dissenting. The Court's opinion brings to the decision of this troubling question both extensive historical fact and a wealth of legal scholarship.
In 1970, Jane Roe (a fictional name used in court documents to protect the plaintiff’s identity) filed a lawsuit against Henry Wade, the district attorney of Dallas County, Texas, where she resided, challenging a Texas law making abortion illegal except by a doctor’s orders to save a woman’s life. In her lawsuit, Roe alleged that the ...
Rehnquist also dissented in Roe v. Wade (1973), in which the majority based a woman’s right to an abortion on a constitutional right of privacy that arose not from the terms but from the “penumbras” of the Bill of Rights. He wrote, “To reach its result, the Court necessarily has had to find within the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment a ...
Roe v. Wade MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST, dissenting. The Court's opinion brings to the decision of this troubling question both extensive historical fact and a wealth of legal scholarship. While the opinion thus commands my respect, I find myself nonetheless in fundamental disagreement with those parts of it that invalidate the Texas statute in
4 days ago · Rehnquist stayed true to his conservative values, dissenting in cases such as Roe v. Wade, in which the Court voted to legalize abortion. Fifty-two solitary dissents later, he earned the nickname the “Lone Ranger.” Rehnquist did not always embody the image of a lonely, curmudgeon dissenter.
