What grounds did the court use to make abortion legal?

Answer 1

In summary, the basis (grounds) for their decision evolved around a woman's 1st amendment right to privacy over what happens to her body.

Seriously, it is that simple.

You you examine the doctrine around the issue, they examined it from every angle you could imagine but that is where they made their final decision from. Additionally, they concluded that the problem of defining when a fertilized egg becomes a person was not the issue.

Answer 2

Abortion should be made illegal, so it will be back-alley again. When the risks of abortion are seen, the whores who use this as a form of birth control will hopefully change their ways. Also, abortion is not a non issue. A big non issue is whether or not we are treating the terrorist POW's in Guantanamo like royalty. As far as I am concerned, they deserve the most minimal of essentials.

Answer 3

In view of all this, we do not agree that, by adopting one theory of life, Texas may override the rights of the pregnant woman that are at stake. We repeat, however, that the State does have an important and legitimate interest in preserving and protecting the health of the pregnant woman, whether she be a resident of the State or a nonresident who seeks medical consultation and treatment there, and that it has still another important and legitimate interest in protecting the potentiality of human life. These interests are separate and distinct. Each grows in substantiality as the woman approaches term and, at a point during pregnancy, each becomes "compelling."



With respect to the State's important and legitimate interest in the health of the mother, the "compelling" point, in the light of present medical knowledge, is at approximately the end of the first trimester. This is so because of the now-established medical fact, referred to above at 149, that until the end of the first trimester mortality in abortion may be less than mortality in normal childbirth. It follows that, from and after this point, a State may regulate the abortion procedure to the extent that the regulation reasonably relates to the preservation and protection of maternal health. Examples of permissible state regulation in this area are requirements as to the qualifications of the person who is to perform the abortion; as to the licensure of that person; as to the facility in which the procedure is to be performed, that is, whether it must be a hospital or may be a clinic or some other place of less-than-hospital status; as to the licensing of the facility; and the like.


This means, on the other hand, that, for the period of pregnancy prior to this "compelling" point, the attending physician, in consultation with his patient, is free to determine, without regulation by the State, that, in his medical judgment, the patient's pregnancy should be terminated. If that decision is reached, the judgment may be effectuated by an abortion free of interference by the State.


With respect to the State's important and legitimate interest in potential life, the "compelling" point is at viability. This is so because the fetus then presumably has the capability of meaningful life outside the mother's womb. State regulation protective of fetal life after viability thus has both logical and biological justifications. If the State is interested in protecting fetal life after viability, it may go so far as to proscribe abortion during that period, except when it is necessary to preserve the life or health of the mother.

Answer 4

Abortion is a non issue. Republicans love non issues. The morning after pill will be sold in America and the black market will provide the service to teens. Republicans who own stock in that drug company will make lots of money from the morning after pill.

Answer 5

Roe vs Wade ruling and the court ruled in favor of abortion.

Answer 6

The "grounds" were thousands of women were dying getting illegal abortions or leaving the country.

Making abortion illegal again will not stop abortion....it'll just go underground again.

From the beginning of time women have found away to terminate unwanted pregnancies.

Answer 7

The "ground" that the Court used was full of ****.

Answer 8

Refer to Roe v. Wade. I am sure if you google it, you will find it.

I am assuming that invasion of privacy was a huge matter. Basically, the argument was what right do others have to force a woman to remain pregnant if she chooses not to be pregnant? I would find coragryph (he's a lawyer - I bet he can inform you all about the case - if not recite it).

Answer 9

There weren't any grounds, so they made some up.