Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Legality of Late Abortions (Roe V. Wade) Message-ID: <1984@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 23:23:27 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxd.1984 Posted: Tue Oct 29 23:23:27 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Nov-85 23:58:15 EST References: <1989@reed.UUCP> <367@cylixd.UUCP> <63@uscvax.UUCP> <64@uscvax.UUCP> <1028@bunker.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 28 > As a result of Roe v. Wade, abortion is legal at any time before > delivery. Quoting from _The Least of These_, by Curt Young: > 1. During the first third of pregnancy, abortion is legal > for any reason as long as a licensed physician performs > the procedure. > 2. During the middle third of pregnancy, abortion is also > legal, for any reason, but states may pass laws intended > to protect the health of the mother... >* 3. During the last months of pregnancy, when the baby is >* clearly able to survive outside the womb -- is viable -- > if given the best medical treatment available, the Court > ruled that a state "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 the health of the mother." [Roe v. Wade, > 410 US 113 at 164-65] > [Note the material indirectly quoted from the Court's decision.] [SAMUELSON] And note the asterisked lines above. Even anti-abortionists understand the notion of viability of the fetus, when it becomes viable, and what viability means in terms of autonomous existence and rights as a human being. (Odd that NO ONE responded to my article about the Arizona Supreme Court, and the way their wording and use of the word "viable" makes clear the point of demarcation of "lifehood" in terms of being a full fledged human being. Not even Matt Rosenblatt...) -- "There! I've run rings 'round you logically!" "Oh, intercourse the penguin!" Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr