The right to reproductive autonomy is deeply grounded in the US Constitution and is about much more than Roe and the right to abortion. It extended both civil and legal rights for Black citizens who were formerly enslaved.The simplest answer is that Abortion Rights are mentioned nowhere in the United States Constitution of the Bill of Rights. The 14th amendment applies to government actions, not private individuals. In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Roe v. This isn't about abortion. It is about privacy and autonomy and the definition of legal personhood. Wade, the Supreme Court decided that the right to privacy implied in the 14th Amendment protected abortion as a fundamental right. In 1973, the Supreme Court held that the Fifth Amendment's due process clause includes a right to privacy in Roe v. It perhaps is not generally appreciated that the restrictive criminal abortion laws in effect in a majority of States today are of relatively recent vintage.