Does the Fourteenth Amendment in the United States Constitution give a woman the right to terminate her pregnancy by abortion?
In Texas, State law restricted the end of a pregnancy by surgery with the exception of when the life of the mother was at risk. The statute was understood as a nearly complete prohibition on abortion. Jane Roe, a pregnant single lady, brought a class action against the state of Texas' abortion law, contending that the statute was unlawful and violated her privacy rights under the Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments in the United States Constitution. Appealing party claimed that she was unmarried and pregnant, and that she was not able to get an abortion by an authorized doctor on the grounds