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...aware of the potential impact of the decision-Justice Harry Blackmun laced his opinion with a precise set of guidelines. During the first three months of pregnancy, wrote Blackmun, "the abortion decision and its effectuation must be left to the medical judgment of the pregnant woman's attending physician." After the first trimester, a state may "regulate the abortion procedure in ways that are reasonably related to maternal health," for instance by requiring hospitalization. But to demand that a panel of doctors okay the abortion, said Blackmun, is an unconstitutional complication. Only after the fetus has developed enough...
...When can I get an abortion?" The answer to that question will vary widely from state to state, hospital to hospital, and physician to physician. Georgia quickly said that every doctor was now free to perform whatever abortions he deemed necessary. Boston Hospital for Women, the nation's oldest maternity and obstetrics hospital, also amended its policy. Many other states and hospitals are moving more slowly; despite the carefully detailed decision, they are not yet certain of the full contours of the new "right to abortion...
...argued the case for Mary Doe, points out that this can be a critical factor in poor rural areas with only one doctor. That specific question was not before him, but Justice Blackmun, a former (1950-59) resident counsel at the Mayo Clinic, obviously has faith in the physician's traditional discretion. "Despite the presence of rascals in the medical profession, as in all others," he said, "we trust that most physicians are 'good...
During the White House years, when Vice Admiral George G. Burkley was his physician, Johnson suffered no angina, the pain that results when the heart muscle protests that it is not getting enough blood. Indeed, Burkley recalls: "If you hadn't known of his previous attack, you would have had a hard time finding anything in his electrocardiogram to indicate...
...LIFE BEGIN? Most theologians and philosophers believe that she should base her decision on the question that Newman found to be a matter of individual judgment: when does a human being begin to exist? Is a fetus only "a bit of vegetating unborn matter" that counts for nothing, as Physician H.B. Munson asserts? Or is it a real person whose destruction Terence Cardinal Cooke describes as "slaughter of the innocent unborn"? The view of the fetus as a person has spawned a nationwide, Catholic-dominated, Right to Life movement whose partisans insist that abortion deprives the fetus of due process...