Medical Law and Ethics- Introdution to Ethics : An unmarried female, Jane Roe, brought an action against the District Attorney in Texas, charging that the Texas criminal abortion statutes were unconstitutional. The plaintiff stated that she was unmarried and pregnant, that she wished to end the pregnancy in safe clinical conditions, but that she was unable to get a legal abortion in Texas because she was not in a life-threatening situation. She claimed that the statutes abridged her right of personal privacy protected by the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Should her right of personal privacy include the right to have an abortion