What is Roe v. Wade?
{{italic title}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2022}} {{Infobox |name = Infobox/doc |bodystyle = |title = ''Roe v. Wade'' |titlestyle = background:#ccf; |image = [[File:Seal of the United States Supreme Court.svg|100px]] |imagestyle = |caption = Seal of the [[United States Supreme Court]] |captionstyle = |headerstyle = background:#ccf; |labelstyle = background:#ddf; |datastyle = |header1 = Argued December 13, 1971<br>Reargued October 11, 1972<br>Decided January 22, 1973<br>Overturned June 24, 2022 |label2 = Full case name |data2 = ''Jane Roe, et al. v. Henry Wade, District Attorney of Dallas County'' |label3 = Citation |data3 = 410 U.S. 113 (1973) |header4 = Decision |data5 = State laws that [[Abortion laws|make abortions illegal]] [[wikt:violate|violate]] women's [[due process]] [[rights]] |header6 = Case opinions |label7=[[Majority opinion|Majority]] |data7 = Justice [[Harry Blackmun|Blackmun]], joined by Justices [[Warren E. Burger|Burger]], [[William O. Douglas|Douglas]], [[William J. Brennan, Jr.|Brennan]], [[Potter Stewart|Stewart]], [[Thurgood Marshall|Marshall]], & [[Lewis F. Powell, Jr.|Powell]] |label8=[[Concurring opinion|Concurring]] |data8= Justices Burger, Douglas, & Stewart |label9 = [[Dissenting opinion|Dissenting]] |data9 = Justices [[Byron White|White]] and [[William Rehnquist|Rehnquist]] |header10=Laws applied |data11=[[Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|14th Amendment]]; Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, Articles 1191-94, 1196 }} '''''Roe v. Wade''''' was a 1973 [[landmark decision]] by the [[US Supreme Court]] that ruled that a state [[law]] that banned [[abortion]] was [[unconstitutional]].<ref name=rvwPBS>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_roe.html |title=Roe v. Wade (1973) |author= |website= |publisher=PBS/Educational Broadcasting Corporation |accessdate=February 15, 2016}}</ref> The decision said that a woman's right to [[wikt:privacy|privacy]] extended to the [[fetus]] that she w