Policy & Advocacy
Doe v Bolton Syllabus
The Supreme Court of the United States' Syllabus of Doe v. Bolton and its Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
This is a concise summary of Doe v. Bolton's facts, issues, and conclusions written by the Reporter of Decisions, outlining the key components of the case which was argued on December 13, 1971, with a ruling on January 22, 1973.
Doe v. Bolton (1973) was the Supreme Court’s companion case to Roe v. Wade, decided on the same day. It struck down Georgia’s restrictive abortion laws. The decision is legally significant because it struck down procedural roadblocks to obtaining an abortion and defined "maternal health" to include physical, emotional, psychological, and familial factors.