In that case, Roe, a Texas resident, sought to obtain an abortion. Texas law prohibited abortions except to save the pregnant mother's life. The court came to the conclusion that a woman's right to an abortion fell within the right to privacy, protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. The decision gave a woman a right to abortion during the entire time of the pregnancy and defined different levels of state interest for regulating abortion in the second and third trimesters. As a result, the laws of 46 states were affected by the Court's ruling. The law that was made, state!
             d that the "law protects only 'legal persons' and that 'legal personhood does not exist parentally.' It authorized no legal restrictions on abortion in the first three months. No restrictions from then until viability except those needed to make the procedure safer for the mother. Abortion was allowed until birth if one licensed physician judged it necessary for the mother's 'heal
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