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Title
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Roe v. Wade
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Date
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1973
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Description
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In Roe v. Wade, decided January 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Constitution protected a qualified right to obtain an abortion and established a framework regulating state restrictions. The decision became a major legal setting for American debates over reproductive decision-making, medicine, moral status, professional authority, and the relationship between law and bioethics.
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ABP identifier
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ABP-E-0009
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Historical significance
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Roe placed reproductive decision-making at the intersection of constitutional law, medicine, moral argument, and patient authority during the formative decade of American bioethics. Its inclusion marks abortion as one important strand of reproductive ethics without treating it as synonymous with the broader history of reproductive autonomy.
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Intellectual stream
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Law & public policy
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Clinical ethics & professionalism
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Verification status
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Verified
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Evidence confidence
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High
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Open question
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How should later repository views connect Roe to contraception, sterilization, fetal research, reproductive justice, and the subsequent constitutional history culminating in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization?