TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page. An issue that remains pending for next session is passing a constitutional amendment ensuring access to abortion in the state.The right to reproductive autonomy is deeply grounded in the US Constitution and is about much more than Roe and the right to abortion. The 14th Amendment's guarantee to "due process" provided a basis for these five Supreme Court rulings that have impacted Americans' lives. Board of Education), abortion (Roe v. Wade) and same-sex marriage (Obergefell v. Hodges). "The word 'person,' as used in the Fourteenth Amendment, does not include the unborn," Justice Harry Blackmun wrote. Effect, it would wipe out the availability of abortion services in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Mobile. In a 72 ruling, the Supreme Court justices declared the law unconstitutional. What did the 14th amendment have to do with Roe v. Wade?