n to two, were as follows:
1. The right of a woman to have an abortion was among the
fundamental constitutional rights protected under the 5th, 9th and 14th Amendments. In his opinion for the majority, Justice Harry Blackmun said at 153 that "the right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action . . . or . . . in the Ninth Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy."
2. The Court did not agree that this right was absolute. Blackmun said at 154-155 that "a State may properly assert important interests in safeguarding health, in maintaining medical standards, and in protecting potential life." However, he concluded at 158 that the term person in the Fourteenth Amendment "does not include the unborn." Blackmun said at 163:
"we need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unabl
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