This Texas federal appeal and its Georgia companion, Doe v. Bolton, post, p. 179, present constitutional
challenges to state criminal abortion legislation. The Texas statutes under attack here are typical
of those that have been in effect in many States for approximately a century. The Georgia
statutes, in contrast, have a modern cast and are a legislative product that, to an extent at
least, obviously reflects the influences of recent attitudinal change, of advancing medical knowledge
and techniques, and of new thinking about an old issue�… We forthwith acknowledge our awareness�…

1220 Defendant challenges the standing of each of the plaintiffs to bring this action.
However, it appears to the Court that Plaintiff Roe and plaintiff-intervenor Hallford occupy positions
vis-a-vis the Texas Abortion Laws sufficient to differentiate them from the general public. Compare
Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 US 510, 45 S.Ct. 571, 69 L.Ed. 1070 (1925), and Griswold v.
Connecticut, 381 US 479, 85 S.Ct. 1678, 14 L.Ed.2d 510 (1965), [3] with Frothingham v.
Mellon, 262 US 447, 43 S.Ct. 597, 67 L. Ed. 1078 (1923). Plaintiff Roe filed her portion of the�…