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These cases come to us a decade after we held in Roe vs. Wade that the right of privacy, grounded in the concept of personal liberty guaranteed by the Constitution, encompasses a woman's right to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy. Legislative responses to the court's decision have required us on several occasions, and again today, to define the limits of a state's authority to regulate the performance of abortions. And arguments continue to be made, in these cases as well, that we erred in interpreting the Constitution...
...rulings involved an ordinance passed by the city council of Akron, Ohio, which has served as a national model for antiabortion legislation. Its requirement that abortions after the first three months, or trimester, of a pregnancy be performed in a hospital seemed to conform to the Roe vs. Wade ruling that the state can make regulations that are "reasonably related" to the health of the woman after the first trimester. But the court, citing advances in medical technology, ruled that the abortion method known as dilatation and evacuation "may be performed safely on an outpatient basis in appropriate nonhospital facilities...
...Justices who originally opposed Roe vs. Wade, Byron White and William Rehnquist, were joined last week by Sandra Day O'Connor, who authored the strongly worded dissent (see box). O'Connor argued that the state's interest in protecting potential human life exists in all stages of the pregnancy. She wrote: "In Roe, the court held that although the state had an important and legitimate interest in protecting potential life, that interest could not become compelling until the point at which the fetus was viable. The difficulty with this analysis is clear: potential life is no less...
...rightful independence of state governments' counsels against 'unnecessary interference by the federal courts.' " Professor Louis Michael Seidman of Washington's Georgetown University Law Center disagrees with Justice Lewis Powell that O'Connor's dissent is a veiled bid to overturn Roe vs. Wade. "I don't think it undermines Roe" Seidman says. "But we don't know what she'd do if the basic right to abortion were under challenge. She has left herself flexible to move in either direction...
...climate and topography of Cold Creek, in south-central Washington, seem suitable for red wines, though the state's reds have yet to receive the acclaim earned by its whites. Wade Wolfe, 34, Chateau Ste. Michelle's overseer for vineyard operations, who has a Ph.D. in grape genetics from the University of California at Davis, thinks that this district may be good for Cabernets and Merlots. Says Tchelistcheff: "The reds are just starting to come up. They need more aging, more know-how, more sculpting by the wine maker." Washington needs to attract more such experts, as California...