Abortion in the United States - Landmark case - Roe v. Wade

The issue of abortion in the United States is a highly charged issue with significant political and ethical debate. In a medical sense, the word abortion refers to any pregnancy that does not end in live birth. In the debate, however, abortion is almost always used to mean "induced abortion," as contrasted to "spontaneous abortion" or "miscarriage". Abortion in the United States - Legal aspects. The current judicial interpretation of the U.S. Constitution regarding abortion in the United States, following t ...

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In deciding Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruled that a Texas statute forbidding abortion except when necessary to save the life of the woman was unconstitutional. The Court arrived at its decision by concluding that the issue of abortion and abortion rights falls under the right to privacy. In its opinion it listed several landmark cases where the court had previously found that right implied by the Constitution. The court held that a first-trimester embryo or fetus was not a person under the Constitution, and that a right to privacy ...

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Since 1995, led by Congressional Republicans, the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate have moved several times to pass measures banning the procedure of so-called "partial-birth" abortions. After several long and emotional debates on the issue, such measures passed twice by wide margins, but President Bill Clinton vetoed those bills in April 1996 and October 1997 on the grounds that they did not include health exceptions. Congressional supporters of the bill argue that a health exception would render the bill unenforceable, since t ...

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Organizations and individuals opposing abortion argue that the fetus, as a distinct living entity, is a person and therefore entitled to protection under the law. Their activities will typically focus on one of two primary strategies: limitation and prevention. Those focusing on limitation participate in lobbying, rallies, and grassroots efforts to spread information. The most common prevention strategy is the manning of pregnancy help centers, also called Crisis Pregnancy Centers or CPC's. These centers provide pregnancy tests and present w ...

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Some supporters of legal abortion argue that legalization has resulted in a dramatic fall in maternal death from abortion. Other researchers point out that maternal mortality from abortion fell during the entire 20th century, with a dramatic drop coming after the advent of blood replacement and antibiotics. From 1940 through 1970, abortion mortality fell from nearly 1,500 to a little over 100. ("Induced termination of pregnancy before and after Roe v. Wade" JAMA, 12/9/92, vol. 208, no. 22, p. 3231-3239.) It is therefore impossible to prove that th ...

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The current judicial interpretation of the U.S. Constitution regarding abortion in the United States, following the Supreme Court of the United States's 1973 landmark decision in Roe v. Wade, and subsequent companion decisions, is that abortion is legal up to the moment of birth, if a woman can find a doctor willing to perform the procedure. The official report of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, issued after extensive hearings on the Human Life Amendment (proposed by Senators Hatch and Eagleton), concluded: "Thus, th ...

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The 1992 case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey overturned Roe's strict trimester formula, and emphasized the right to abortion as grounded in the general sense of liberty protected under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, rather than a generalized right to privacy. Advancements in medical technology, expected to continue, meant that a fetus might be considered viable, and thus have some basis of a right to life, at 22 or 23 weeks rather than at the 28 that was more common at the time Roe was decided. For this reason, the old trimest ...

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There were few laws on abortion in the United States at the time of independence. In some cases, it was governed by English common law, which found abortion to be legally and ethically acceptable if occurring before 'quickening,' when the movement of the fetus could first be felt. Laws against abortion began to appear in the 1820s. Connecticut outlawed post-quickening abortions in 1821, and New York made post-quickening abortions a felony and pre-quickening abortions a misdemeanor eight years later. Many of the early laws were motivated not ...

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Because reporting of abortions is not mandatory, statistics are of varying reliability. The most reliable and consistent statistics come from the Centers For Disease Control and the Alan Guttmacher Institute. Abortion in the United States - Number of abortions in United States. Source: Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1996 See also:

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