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Chief Justice:

Warren E Burger

Associate Justices:
William O. Douglas ·  William J. Brennan Jr.

Potter Stewart ·  Byron White

Thurgood Marshall ·  Harry Blackmun

Lewis F. Powell Jr. ·  William Rehnquist

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Jane ROe filed a lawsuit against Henry Wade, district attorney of Dallas Texas, challenging the law that made abortions illegal except for when ordered by a doctor to save a patients life. She stated it was unconstitutional and took away women's rights

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Judgemet for Plaintiffs, Injunction was denied,Rehearing was denied

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Roe:
The Texas Law infringes on the right of privacy
Risk to women's health of childbirth
Unwanted pregnancies disrupt life
Wade: No right to abortion in Constitution
A fetus is a person within the meaning of the 14th amendment so it would be taking away a life
Texas Law isn't unconstitutionally vague

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Q:
Does the Constitution recognize a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy by abortion?
A: According to the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the woman's choice to terminate a pregnancy is included in the rights of privacy

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Written by Harry A Blackmun, the majority opinion says that criminalizing abortion infringed on the Constitutional right of privacy

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Concurring: Burger agreed with the ruling but claimed the Court used science and medicine to back them up and regulations in Texas and Georgia were not "unduly burdensome"
Dissenting: White claims that the right to an abortion is not in the Constitution and the claim that it is, is a new right that is being made for pregnant mothers

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Claimed the Constitutions right of privacy was broad enough to claim the women's right to terminate a pregnancy. Made abortions legal.

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I wouldn't really say it was either Activism or Restraint because it wasn't based on previous rulings at all since there really weren't any