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Webster v. Reproductive Health Services is not the first case on abortion that has come before the Court in the past 15 years. Until now, the Court has reaffirmed its 1973 decision that abortion is an issue to be decided between a woman and her doctor, and that state regulation of abortion beyond a limited point is a violation of the constitutional right to privacy...
...there are two changes which probably will come out of the Webster case. The first will allow states to forbid publicly funded clinics to offer abortion as an alternative in counseling. The second will permit laws forbidding public facilities to perform abortions, even if the woman is paying for it herself. In several states, including Missouri, most abortions are currently performed at public hospitals...
...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...
There is still a remaining vacancy on the Corporation, the one left by the late Treasurer Roderick M. MacDougall '51. The appointment of a woman is certainly a great step forward, but the Corporation has still never had a minority member. Harvard should continue to seek diversity for the body in attempting to include those who have been overlooked in the past...