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First Mr. Gooen suggests that the majority of state laws banning abortion before Roe were intended not to safeguard the life of the fetus, but rather to protect the mother from dangerous proceedings. The only evidence he offers in support of this is the fact that most of these statutes criminalized only the abortionist and not the would-be mother. This proves only that those outraged by abortion, then as now, understood that abortion was a crime in which often the woman would be victimized almost as much as the unborn child. Also, since 36 of the states had abortion...
REGARDLESS OF their approach to the Constitution, the new justices will deliberate on a number of cases with far-reaching ethical implications, with the biggest issue most likely centering on the divisive issue of abortion. Under the 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling, the Supreme Court held that every woman had the right to an abortion during the first two trimesters of pregnancy, a decision that had withstood recent Administration attempts to limit the use of federal funds for abortions and the mobilization of the Right to Life forces. The arrival of a few Reagan judges who could link up with...
...ANTI-ABORTION forces have a lot to smile about. Now that their best ally has been returned to the White House, they need only wait for two of those nasty old liberal Supreme Court justices to drop dead, and the evil Roe v. Wade abortion decision of 1973 will finally be vanquished...
...point is clear: the pro-lifers will not simply allow a return to the century-old pre-Roe abortion state abortion laws. As transcripts of state legislatures and state court decisions show, these laws were developed not to protect prenatal life, but to protect the health of pregnant women, as abortion was then a dangerous procedure. In Texas, abortion statutes provided that pregnant women could not be prosecuted either for attempting abortion themselves or for allowing abortions to be performed on them; only doctors were subject to prosecution...
...questions get even stickier when considering the issue of exceptions to the rule. One of the main reasons the Supreme Court overturned the Texas abortion law in Roe was that the exception for "saving the life of the mother" was unconstitutionally vague. If abortion is murder, what constitutes self-defense? Must the woman be in actual danger of dying if she carries the child to term, and how sure of this must her doctors be for an abortion to be legally permissible...