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WHILE recent public attention has centered on whether or not the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade and thereby return the regulation of abortion to state legislatures, the increasingly conservative Supreme Court has already undercut another fundamental right--that to education...
Before abortions were formally legalized, they were performed on millions of women, but the risk of maternal mortality, which has become nearly nonexistant since 1973, was quite high. If Roe is modified to make abortions difficult to obtain, women who cannot receive abortions through safe legal channels will begin looking for back-alley operations, as they did before Roe...
...decision to overturn Roe would be much more than a return to the time of illegal abortion. The 1973 decision was not a ruling on the morality of abortion. Instead, it was a decision that a woman and her doctor should be allowed to handle the matter privately, without interference from the state...
Indeed, in a 1983 case, the Court itself pointed out that the Roe decision affirmed "the basic principle that a woman has a fundamental right to make the highly personal choice whether or not to terminate her pregnancy." If this choice is not left to the individual, it becomes a matter of public choice...
What anti-abortion activists often seem to forget is that a woman's right to have an abortion is intimately tied to a woman's right not to have an abortion. To overturn Roe would be to decide that the state could make the most private of a woman's choices for her. If the Court rules that the state may deny a woman an abortion, it is, by extension, implying that the state could force an abortion...