Reply #4: Roe v. Wade was overtly about privacy.

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The Supremes drew an arbitrary line at the end of the 1st trimester and declared that's as good a place as any to consider a fetus legally viable and eligible for governmental protection. So the thinking went, after the point of viability, the state has an interest in seeing children born as new citizens.

Prior to that point, the mother's right to choose (to carry on or not) was deemed hers and hers alone. The Court decided that government cannot suddenly jump in and make decisions for a woman the instant she became pregnant. That invaded her privacy of body.

The decision wasn't about the legality of abortion per se. The decision was about who gets to decide what and when.