The right to reproductive autonomy is deeply grounded in the US Constitution and is about much more than Roe and the right to abortion. An Act concerning reproductive rights, revising and supplementing various parts of the statutory law, and making an appropriation.First Trimester (up to 12 weeks): Gives a woman an absolute right to an abortion in the first three months of pregnancy. A landmark decision of the US Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protected a right to have an abortion. 14 states have banned abortion. We have 13 states that have statues that now criminalize health care providers who provide abortion care. That violate the Fourteenth Amendment is incompatible with the Amendment's de-. Wade, the Supreme Court decided that the right to privacy implied in the 14th Amendment protected abortion as a fundamental right. 14th Middlesex, Cory Atkins. House, 12th Worcester, Harold Naughton.