and Harlem, the court would have to appoint two new justices. Powel and Rehnquist were added to the court and Douglas would take over as Chief Justice of the Roe Court. Blackmun worked night and day on the Roe case and it would be Blackmun who would write the ruling for the court. The Supreme Court of the United States held that abortion was a constitutional right to all women.A fetus was not looked at as a human being. To look at abortion as murder the court decided that a fertilized egg should have the same traits as a full term baby. The court looked at the principal of privacy and the fourteenth amendment and did not extend the rights to an unborn fetus. The court in Roe V. Wade turned to medical evidence this evidence led them to a three-tiered approach. In this approach they separated a pregnancy into three trimesters. The first trimester is when most abortions occur. In fact, in the first trimester is when ninety percent of the abortions occur. The court deemed that a woman’s rights in the first trimester to have an abortion could not be infringed upon. In the second trimester greater restrictions were put into place. These restrictions in the second trimester would be left up to individual states. These restrictions would be for the health and safety of the woman pregnant only. In the third trimester when a fetus is capable of surviving outside a woman’s body abortions are illegal, only the government can interfere. This sparked great controversy out side the courts and inside the courts.The seven to two decisions was delivered by Blackmum with the concurring opinion of Burger, Douglas, Brennan, Stewart, Marshell, and Powell. White, and Rehnquist gave the dissenting opinions. Rehnquist and White the two dissenting opinions contested this ruling for many years. They believed the ruling to be inadequate and disapprove of their fellow justices decision"Even if there were a plaintiff in this case capabl...
