Equal Protection

Under the Fourteenth Amendment, no state can deprive any person of "life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
In the court case Roe vs. Wade (1973), a pregnant women from Texas challenged the states anti-abortion law. The law was completely against abortions for pregnant women because the people who created the law had to think of the complications that would come from the abortions: the health of the mother, who and where the abortion was being performed, and if they were protecting the fetus' life or taking it away. Due to this women challenging the anti-abortion law, she opened up the option for pro-life and pro-choice in that state. Which gives all Texas women the ability to be protected equally if they would choose to have an abortion or not.

Cited:
http://library.thinkquest.org/11572/cc/