Roe Turns 40 | Alternet
"Forty years ago today, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in the case of Roe v Wade(and in a less heralded decision, Doe v Bolton, which struck down Georgia's highly restrictive aboriton law). The 7-2 decision established that the right to privacy under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman's choice to terminate a pregnancy, but that the right also had to be balanced against states' legitimate interest in regulating the procedure."
