Wrong. For all intents and purposes, Roe v Wade makes abortion on demand legally acceptable for whatever reason a woman chooses throughout her entire pregnancy. Until now. This is why removing the most heinous type of abortion procedure and upholding the ban on PBA was such a historic decision.
Respect for life will have a domino effect...and may in turn prevent future mass murders.
Roe does not make abortion on demand legally acceptable in the third trimester. I am pretty sure in most states, you can’t get an abortion at that point in time unless it’s to save the life of the mother.
Yes, abortion rights have expanded since Roe, but Roe pretty much allows states to regulate as time goes on.
I have to reread Casey, but I don’t think it’s as broad of an expansion of Roe as Ninofan makes it out to be.
No. YOU are wrong on this. By stating this, you are demonstrating your _lack_ of knowledge as to what Roe is about.
Harry Blackmun's opinion in Roe specifically broke a pregnancy into three "trimesters", and Roe acknowledges that the state has a increasing stake in the right to regulate abortion as a pregnancy progresses.
In the first trimester, Blackmun said the state has next to no interest.
By the second trimester, there are competing interests between state and the woman.
Roe specifically recognizes that by the third trimester, the fetus has developed to the point where the state now has sufficient interest in the developing life to regulate abortions.
Today's ruling does not threaten Roe.
Quite to the contrary, it actually reinforces it.
Bonus question (which I dare you to answer): who was the California governor who signed that state's first liberalized abortion law?
- John