"The Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, writes Professor Mary Ziegler, “serves as the most prominent example of the damage judicial review can do to the larger society.” In Roe, the Court held that its previously created “right to privacy...is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.” This holding, and the Court’s rules for implementing it, effectively invalidated abortion laws of all kinds passed by every state legislature in the previous 150 years. Roe remains one of the most controversial judicial decisions in American history for both its result and the means the Court used to reach it."