Doe v. Bolton

Doe v. Bolton
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 13, 1971 Reargued October 11, 1972 Decided January 23, 1973
Full case name	Mary Doe v. Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General of Georgia, et al.
Citations	410 U.S. 179 (more) 93 S. Ct. 739; 35 L. Ed. 2d 201
Related cases	Roe v. Wade
Decision	Opinion
Case history
Prior	Doe v. Bolton, 319 F. Supp. 1048 (N.D. Ga. 1970)
Questions presented
Whether 26-1201 to 26-1203 of the Georgia Code by limiting the grounds for the performance of abortions deprive women and physicians of their fundamental rights of privacy and liberty in violation of the Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution
Holding
The three procedural conditions in 26-1202 (b) of Ga. Criminal Code violate the Fourteenth Amendment. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia affirmed.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William O. Douglas · William J. Brennan Jr. Potter Stewart · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist
Case opinions
Majority	Blackmun, joined by Burger, Douglas, Brennan, Stewart, Marshall, Powell
Concurrence	Burger
Concurrence	Douglas
Concurrence	Stewart
Dissent	White, joined by Rehnquist
Dissent	Rehnquist
Laws applied
U.S. Const. Amend. XIV; Ga. Criminal Code § 26-1202 (b)
Superseded by
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022)

Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179 (1973), was a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States overturning the abortion law of Georgia.^[1] The Supreme Court's decision was released on January 22, 1973, the same day as the decision in the better-known case of Roe v. Wade.^[2]