Can you please brief this case Planned Parenthood v. Casey such as, facts, why the court held it and decision regarding the case?

e, In effect gambling that an explicit overruling would be better politically than further dilution. Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Robert Casey United States Supreme Court, 1992. 505 U.S. 833, 112 S.Ct. 2791, 120 L.Ed.2d 674. JUSTICE O'CONNOR, JUSTICE KENNEDY, and JUSTICE SOUTER announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I, II, III, V-A, V-C, and VI, an opinion with respect to Part V-E, in which JUSTICE STEVENS joins, and an opinion with respect to Parts IV, V-B, and V-D. [I.] Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt. Yet 19 years after our holding that the Constitution protects a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy in its early stages, that definition of liberty is still questioned. Joining the respondents as amicus curiae, the United States, as it has done in five other cases in the last decade, again asks us to overrule Roe v. Wade. * * *WATERSHED DECISIONS AND THE RISE OF E 192 after considering the fundamental constitutionandactions resolv five, principles of institutional integrity, and the one of stare decyed are led to conclude this: the essential holding of foe v. Wade shois. SECTION 1 retained and once again reaffirmed. [The Joint Opinion characterid the infant a the first part of "Roe's essential holding" as a recognition of "the te the right of ility and to obtain it she make the the woman to choose to have an abortion before viability State to ins however don without undue interference from the State."] Ill./ Constitutional protection of the woman's decision to termina our culture. Her pregnancy derives from the Due Process Clause of the Fourtecate on her own Amendment. It declares that no State shall "deprive any person of ligh society. uberty, or property, without due process of law." The controlling words [III. ] is custom the cases before us is "liberty." * * * Men and women of good conscience can disagree, and we suppose considerat some always shall disagree, about the profound moral and spiritus decision w of reaffirm implications of terminating a pregnancy, even in its earliest stage. . Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral So in code. The underlying constitutional issue is whether the State can found un resolve these philosophic questions in such a definitive way that a woman removed lacks all choice in the matter, except perhaps in those rare circumstances significa the law' in which the pregnancy is itself a danger to her own life or health, or is doctrina the result of rape or incest. of fact It is conventional constitutional doctrine that where reasonable central people disagree the government can adopt one position or the other. That issue it theorem, however, assumes a state of affairs in which the choice does not 1. intrude upon a protected liberty. * * * prover * * * At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of which existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life. judici Beliefs about these matters could not define the attributes of personhood guara were they formed under compulsion of the State. such deter These considerations begin our analysis of the woman's interest in terminating her pregnancy but cannot end it, for this reason: though the abortion decision may originate within the zone of conscience and belief, as it it is more than a philosophic exercise. Abortion is a unique act. It is an cont act fraught with consequences for others: for the woman who must live with the implications of her decision; for the persons who perform and con assist in the procedure; for the spouse, family, and society which must con confront the knowledge that these procedures exist, procedures some occ deem nothing short of an act of violence against innocent human life; and, rel depending on one's beliefs, for the life or potential life that is aborted. as Though abortion is conduct, it does not follow that the State is entitled to proscribe it in all instances. That is because the liberty of the woman is re at stake in a sense unique to the human condition and so unique to the SU law. The mother who carries a child to full term is subject to anxieties, to physical constraints, to pain that only she must bear. That these sacrifices have from the beginning of the human race been endured by woman with a pride that ennobles her