Constitutional Amendments Relating to Abortion: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, on S.J. Res. 17, S.J. Res. 18, S.J. Res. 19, and S.J. Res. 110 ... October 5, 14, 19, November 4, 5, 12, 16, December 7, and 16, 1981, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983 - Abortion |
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... Number Two Sexually - Transmitted Condition , by Willard Cates , Jr. , M.D. , M.P.H. , David A. Grimes , M.D. , and ... Legal Abortion : The Public Health Record , by Willard Cates , Jr. , from Science , Vol . 215 , Mar. 26 , 1982__ . 431 ...
... Number Two Sexually - Transmitted Condition , by Willard Cates , Jr. , M.D. , M.P.H. , David A. Grimes , M.D. , and ... Legal Abortion : The Public Health Record , by Willard Cates , Jr. , from Science , Vol . 215 , Mar. 26 , 1982__ . 431 ...
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... legal abortions a thing of the past . Statistics point out that since 1967 , 15 % of all American women of reproductive age have had abortions . This number includes women of all socio - economic groups . Desperate people who need ...
... legal abortions a thing of the past . Statistics point out that since 1967 , 15 % of all American women of reproductive age have had abortions . This number includes women of all socio - economic groups . Desperate people who need ...
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... number of ( illegal ) abortions that were done in this country before the ... legal in order to assure that the woman being aborted has opportunity to ... legal abortion in Pennsylvania . So , she went to an illegal abortionist in that ...
... number of ( illegal ) abortions that were done in this country before the ... legal in order to assure that the woman being aborted has opportunity to ... legal abortion in Pennsylvania . So , she went to an illegal abortionist in that ...
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... Legal status of abortion by country and by grounds : Mid - 1980 15 Table 2 Number of legal abortions , abortion rates , and abortion ratios : Selected areas , years , and characteristics 26 Table 3 Legal abortions in England and Wales ...
... Legal status of abortion by country and by grounds : Mid - 1980 15 Table 2 Number of legal abortions , abortion rates , and abortion ratios : Selected areas , years , and characteristics 26 Table 3 Legal abortions in England and Wales ...
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... numbers of legal abor- tions may include two categories of cases that are not covered by the definition of abortion given in the preceding section . Some abortion procedures may be performed on the basis of an erroneous diagnosis of ...
... numbers of legal abor- tions may include two categories of cases that are not covered by the definition of abortion given in the preceding section . Some abortion procedures may be performed on the basis of an erroneous diagnosis of ...
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Page 324 - This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.
Page 424 - With respect to the State's important and legitimate interest in potential life, the "compelling" point is at viability. This is so because the fetus then presumably has the capability of meaningful life outside the mother's womb. State regulation protective of fetal life after viability thus has both logical and biological justifications.
Page 595 - We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point in the development of man's knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer.
Page 19 - That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States...
Page 596 - ... potentially able to live outside the mother's womb, albeit with artificial aid. Viability is usually placed at about seven months (28 weeks) but may occur earlier, even at 24 weeks.
Page 629 - Even so, they are not of the very essence of a scheme of ordered liberty. To abolish them is not to violate a "principle of justice so rooted in the traditions and conscience of our people as to be ranked as fundamental.
Page 588 - In a line of decisions, however, going back perhaps as far as Union Pacific R. Co. v. Botsford, 141 US 250, 251 (1891), the Court has recognized that a right of personal privacy, or a guarantee of certain areas or zones of privacy, does exist under the Constitution...
Page 174 - The wilful killing of an unborn quick child, by any injury to the mother of such child, which would be murder if it resulted in the death of such mother, shall be deemed manslaughter in the first degree.
Page 310 - Government, the right to be let alone — the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.
Page 327 - One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.