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The "health of the mother" was defined to include the physical, psychological, and emotional health of the mother. There can be no requirement that the abortion reason be reported to anyone. The upshot is that any pregnant woman could get an abortion for any reason throughout the entire nine months as a constitutional right, provided that she could find an abortionist to do it.
The "health of the mother" was defined to include the physical, psychological, and emotional health of the mother. There can be no requirement that the abortion reason be reported to anyone. The upshot is that any pregnant woman could get an abortion for any reason throughout the entire nine months as a constitutional right, provided that she could find an abortionist to do it.
Associate Justice Potter Stewart concurred with the Court's majority opinion on the basis that liberty extends to a women's right to [[Pro-choice|"choose"]] to end her pregnancy through abortion. Stewart cited the [[Fourteenth Amendment]] to further argue that the woman's interests should be protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.<ref>[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade/Concurrence_Stewart]</ref> However, Stewart had only interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment in a very biased manner to support his personal opinion, as the phrase "no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law" should technically apply to unborn children and not just the mother.
===Dissents===
===Dissents===
[[William Rehnquist]] cited his dissent in ''Roe v. Wade'' on the argument that Roe's complaint does not justify nor give the court power to outlaw abortion restrictions in every state. He also listed 36 states with abortion restrictions to further argue his point in the general sense that powers not given to the federal government should be left to the states (also known as the [[Tenth Amendment]]).<ref>[https://college.cengage.com/polisci/eduspace/sources/civil_liberties/hmps_roevwade_dissent.html]</ref>
[[William Rehnquist]] cited his dissent in ''Roe v. Wade'' on the argument that Roe's complaint does not justify nor give the court power to outlaw abortion restrictions in every state. He also listed 36 states with abortion restrictions to further argue his point in the general sense that powers not given to the federal government should be left to the states (also known as the [[Tenth Amendment]]).<ref>[https://college.cengage.com/polisci/eduspace/sources/civil_liberties/hmps_roevwade_dissent.html]</ref>