Roe V. Wade (A Bitterly Divided Supreme Court Reluctantly Reaffirms Roe V. Wade But Widens States’ Power to Establish Abortion Restrictions)

"The abortion matter is not before us in the first instance, and coming as it does after nearly 20 years of litigation in Roe's wake, we are satisfied that the immediate question is not the soundness of Roe's resolution of the issue, but the precedential force that must be accorded to its holding. And we have concluded that the essential holding of Roe should be reaffirmed. Yet it must be remembered that Roe v. Wade speaks with clarity in establishing not only the woman's liberty to terminate...