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Quotation from Roe v. Wade by Supreme Court of the United States
“This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.”
Roe v. Wade, Opinion of the Court (Justice Blackmun), Part VIII (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource))
Blackmun states the central holding and identifies two possible constitutional sources for the right.
Citation: "This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy." — Supreme Court of the United States, Roe v. Wade, Opinion of the Court (Justice Blackmun), Part VIII (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource)). (id roe-v-wade-q2)
Portrait: Justice Blackmun Official, Unknown, Public domain.
