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Thread #75674   Message #1331828
Posted By: Rapparee
18-Nov-04 - 10:42 PM
Thread Name: BS: After Roe v Wade is overturned......
Subject: RE: BS: After Roe v Wade is overturned......
Actually, Roe v. Wade only made abortion legal during the first trimester of pregnancy. I don't know where we got the idea that Roe v. Wade made all abortions legal. Here's the summary opinion from the decison in Roe v. Wade:

(a) For the stage prior to approximately the end of the first trimester, the abortion decision and its effectuation must be left to the medical judgment of the pregnant woman's attending physician.

(b) For the stage subsequent to approximately the end of the first trimester, the State, in promoting its interest in the health of the mother, may, if it chooses, regulate the abortion procedure in ways that are reasonably related to maternal health.

(c) For the stage subsequent to viability, the State in promoting its interest in the potentiality of human life may, if it chooses, regulate, and even proscribe, abortion except where it is necessary, in appropriate medical judgment, for the preservation of the life or health of the mother.


The whole decision is online.