"Roe described the right in terms of “personal privacy, or a guarantee of certain areas or zones of privacy.” Importantly, it also rejected the idea that the state could “adopt[] one theory of life” in order to “override the rights of the pregnant woman that are at stake.”"
Roe v. Wade

January 1, 1970

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