https://byronharvey.com/abortion-is-and-always-will-be-a-crime/ Fri, 08 Apr 2022 18:42:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://byronharvey.com/abortion-is-and-always-will-be-a-crime/#comment-2117 Sun, 09 Feb 2014 10:15:50 +0000 http://byronharvey.com/?p=5059#comment-2117 The Court asserted that the government had two competing interests – protecting the mother’s health and protecting the “potentiality of human life”. Following its earlier logic, the Court stated that during the first trimester, when the procedure is more safe than childbirth , the decision to abort must be left to the mother and her physician. The State has the right to intervene prior to fetal viability only to protect the health of the mother, and may regulate the procedure after viability so long as there is always an exception for preserving maternal health. The Court additionally added that the primary right being preserved in the Roe decision was that of the physician’s right to practice medicine freely absent a compelling state interest – not women’s rights in general.

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