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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: Abortion techniques and fetal survival
- Message-ID: <nyikos.715735483@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
- Keywords: decay@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (dean.kaflowitz)
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- References: <1992Sep01.184825.34350@watson.ibm.com> <nyikos.715652639@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <Bu4381.6Kt.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 23:24:43 GMT
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- In <Bu4381.6Kt.2@cs.cmu.edu> garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
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- >In article <nyikos.715652639@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >#In <1992Sep01.184825.34350@watson.ibm.com> Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com> writes:
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- >##The legislation struck down in Colautti v. Franklin was a Pennsylvania
- >##law; since then Pennsylvania has passed new abortion restrictions. These
- >##were challenged before the Supreme Court. Some parts were struck down,
- >##but the requirement that two doctors be present, one just for the fetus,
- >##and similar provisions also relating to fetal survival in third-trimester
- >##abortions were *not* struck down.
- >#
- >#They were in Thornburgh v. Coll. of OB/Gyn. To the best of my knowledge,
- >#no such law was upheld until Webster v. Repro.
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- >I hate to break this to you, Nyikos, but this is 1992. Thornburgh was
- >decided in 1986. Larry is referring to the Pennsylvania Abortion
- >Control Act of 1989. PA has passed many anti-abortion bills.
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- But were the fetal survival parts at issue in the _Casey_ decision at
- all? If not, I still don't understand Larry's point. If they were,
- this is the first indication I have that _Casey_ struck down anything
- relating to post-viability fetal survival.
-
- >Your statements are technically correct, I'll grant you that. They
- >weren't, of course, at all relevant.
-
- Whew! Finally I get credit from you for a correct statement!
-
- >Susan
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- Peter Ny.
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