Wade made abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy a legal right. Baird, the Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Baird was whether the Massachusetts law unconstitutionally restricted the right of minors to seek an abortion. Baird affirmed that minors had the right to choose an abortion and that the decision to abort was personal and could not be overridden or vetoed by a third party. The Supreme Court’s ruling on Bellotti v. The Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s decision and ruled that the existing Massachusetts law was unconstitutional. In addition to judging the minor’s competency, a superior court judge could also determine whether the abortion was in the minor’s best interest. Under that law, if one or both of the minor’s parents denied consent, the minor could petition a superior court judge who would determine whether the minor was competent enough to make the decision to abort on her own. That law prohibited minors from receiving abortions without permission from both of their parents or a superior court judge. Baird, ruling that a Massachusetts law that prohibited minors from obtaining abortions without parental consent was unconstitutional.
On 2 July 1979, the United States Supreme Court decided Bellotti v.
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