Roe v. Wade was a landmark Supreme Court case decided in 1973 that originated from a Texas law criminalizing most abortions. The appellate jurisdiction of the case came from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which had upheld a lower court's ruling that the Texas statute was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court ultimately exercised its appellate jurisdiction to review the case, leading to a historic decision that recognized a woman's constitutional right to choose to have an abortion under the right to privacy.
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