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...guide the individual judge . . . There are some judges who believe that abortion . . . is morally wrong, who could not in good conscience issue an order requiring an abortion to be performed. There are others who believe that what may be thought to be in the "best interests" of the pregnant minor is itself just as necessarily a moral as a social question, upon which a judge may not morally speak for another human being, whatever may be that judge's own personal opinion about the morality of abortion. Judges in each category would be obligated to indicate that they could...
...case, several pregnant women receiving Medicaid help challenged a new state regulation in which the state said it would not pay for abortions unless a woman's life was at risk. The case was first filed in 1975, when Souter was top deputy to Warren Rudman. Souter became attorney general in 1976 when Rudman went into private practice. Rudman, a Republican, was elected to the Senate...
...stop by a small farm where a woman shows us the barn where she keeps her three riding horses. MacAllister gives one mare a pregnancy check and discovers that the horse, 45 days pregnant, is bearing twins. He works to convince the owner, quite clearly anti-abortion, that the unborn foals must be aborted. It is dangerous for a mare to give birth to twins, he tells...
...physician at Alaska's Elmendorf Air Force Base hospital told Karen Scott, then almost eight months pregnant with her second child, that she needed her cervix sewn shut to prevent premature birth. The diagnosis was faulty, and the operation resulted in an infection that destroyed some of the unborn child's brain cells. Born six weeks prematurely, Johnathan Scott is afflicted with a form of cerebral palsy known as spastic quadriplegia. Although he is mentally alert, Johnathan, now eight years old, will never walk or develop normally...
Though she has been unwilling to overturn Roe altogether, O'Connor has voted in favor of several state laws that would restrict abortion. She wrote in a 1983 decision that she could accept such limitations so long as they were not "unduly burdensome" to a pregnant woman. That left open a big question: Just what burdens would the Justice consider too heavy? "This legal fight over abortion is like a game of stud poker," says Roger Evans, an attorney for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. "Each decision forces Justice O'Connor to turn over one more card revealing what...