The Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade, (1973) took the right to make medical decisions away from the government (politicians) and returned it to the doctor and patient. It also established that most laws against abortion violate a constitutional right to privacy, and overturned all state laws outlawing or unduly restricting abortion.
This empowered women to control reproduction after the point of conception and made abortion legal.
It overturned laws banning abortion.
It made abortion legal - Apex
It is stated that the right to privacy extended to abortion - APEX :)
The decision of Roe v Wade was important for feminists because it protected women's rights to have control over their own bodies. It made it a legal requirement for women to be able to access abortion so that they were not forced to continue an unintended pregnancy against their will or/and at risk to their health, nor did they have to risk their lives by seeking illegal abortion.
Feminists were relieved that women would now (theoretically) have access to safe, legal abortions if needed.
It stayed that the right to privacy extended to abortion.
The US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of Roe vs. Wade.
Abortion.
Until this decision women had no control over their own body or not. Prior to Roe v Wade women who wanted an abortion had to leave the country or go to a back alley doctor. Many women died doing this.
Thurgood Marshall ruled in favor of legalizing abortion in the Roe v Wade case.
Then the decision would go back to the individual states.
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Roe did.