The Court's decimation of 50 years of precedent requires a rebuilding of jurisprudence to align with the promise of the Fourteenth Amendment. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page.First Trimester (up to 12 weeks): Gives a woman an absolute right to an abortion in the first three months of pregnancy. The 14th amendment was not repealed and there is nothing about abortion in it. Hodges to see the history of Supreme Court precedent involving the Fourteenth Amendment and our fundamental right to privacy. All persons lawfully in this country shall abide 'in any state' on an equality of legal privileges with all citizens under nondiscriminatory laws. The Court ruled that these restrictions violated the 14th Amendment because they imposed an undue burden on abortion access. If the Fourteenth Amendment or its Due Process. In the 1800s, he writes, states began passing laws that "expanded criminal liability. The 14th amendment applies to government actions, not private individuals.