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- From: garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin)
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- Subject: Re: Roe v. Wade permits the purposeful killing of viable fetuses
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- Date: 29 Aug 92 06:57:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug28.195734.19979@ncsu.edu> dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
-
- >The following analysis of Roe v. Wade, written before the Court's
- >decision in Colautti v. Franklin, suggests that Roe v. Wade permits
- >a woman to have the physician purposely kill a viable fetus during
- >an abortion procedure.
-
-
- The following quote from Roe refutes both the claim that Holtsinger
- makes above as well as his endless claims about Roe granting
- the right to "abortion on demand throughout pregnancy."
-
- "On the basis of elements such as these, appellants and some *amici*
- argue that a woman's right is absolute and that she is entitled to
- terminate her pregnancy at whatever time, in whatever way, and for
- whatever reasons she alone chooses. With this we do not agree.
- Appellants' arguments that Texas either has no valid interest at all in
- regulating the abortion decision, or no interest strong enough to
- support any limitation upon the woman's sole determination, is
- unpersuasive. The Court's decisions recognizing a right of privacy also
- acknowledge that some state regulation in areas protected by that right
- is appropriate. As noted above, a state may properly assert important
- interests in safeguarding health, in maintaining medical standards, and
- in protecting potential life. At some point in pregnancy, these
- respective interests become sufficiently compelling to sustain
- regulation of the factors that govern the abortion decision. The
- privacy right involved, therefore, cannot be said to be absolute. In
- fact, it is not clear to us that the claim asserted by some *amici* that
- one has an unlimited right to do with one's body as one pleases bears a
- close relationship to the right of privacy previously articulated in the
- Court's decisions. The Court has refused to recognize an unlimited
- right of this kind in the past. [citations omitted]"
-
-
- I thank greeny@top.cis.syr.edu (J. S. Greenfield) for typing
- this in.
-
- Susan
-