Doe v. Bolton (1973)
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In the 1973 court case Doe v. Bolton, the US Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., ruled that a Georgia law regulating abortion [2] was unconstitutional. The Georgia abortion [2] law required women seeking abortions to get approval for the procedure from their personal physician, two consulting physicians, and from a committee at the admitting hospital. Furthermore, under the statutes, only women who had been raped, whose lives were in danger from the pregnancy [3], or who were carrying fetuses likely to be seriously, permanently malformed were permitted to receive abortions. The US Supreme Court ruled that the Georgia requirements violated the right to privacy implicit in the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. Decided on the same day as the abortion [2] case Roe v. Wade [4], Doe v. Bolton expanded women?s access to abortion [2] by striking down laws that restricted the reasons for which women could receive abortions.
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