Not until the early 1970’s many states in the United States had abortion laws that made it illegal for women to abort their unborn child unless the mother’s life was in danger. However even with laws against abortion there were still woman who tried to illegally get one. Near the end of 1971 a Texan woman, Jane Roe, challenged the Texan abortion law saying that it was unconstitutional with it being invasion of privacy that is guaranteed in the Amendments, mainly in the Ninth and Fourteenth. The Ninth Amendment states that we may have rights that aren’t directly stated in the Constitution that exist and although it is not stated it doesn’t mean they can be violated; which could mean that as citizens we have rights that the government can’t deny us even though it may not be said in the Constitution. The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees all citizens their rights on both the federal and state level. The closest case to this case at the time was the 1965 case of Griswold vs. Connecticut that dealt with the issue of use of contraceptives and the right of privacy whether a married couple could use them or not. This case turned from being about abortion to a person’s right to privacy similar to the Griswold case. When the case was first filed it was in the U.S. District Court in Texas where the court ruled in Roe’s favor for her merits because it violated her right to privacy but did not do anything to change the abortion laws. The ruling was based on the Ninth Amendment and the rulings from the Griswold case. Although Roe initially won in the district won, she was not satisfied because the abortion laws were still intact so her attorneys made an appeal to the U.S Supreme Court. The Supreme Court took the case but also the Doe vs. Bolton case as well because it related with abortion issues in Georgia. The Court had Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and eight other associate