Abortions should be safe, legal and rare - Planned Parenthood
On 20 May, a Federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, destroyed - for the second time - the national law on late-term abortions. The court ruled that the law an "undue burden" on women, going beyond the guidelines of the Supreme Court last year by the SU in the case of Gonzales v. Carhart.
I and many others have challenged the law of Virginia, when it was adopted in 2003, mainly because it seemedto rest on shaky constitutional grounds. It does not matter. right-wing politicians in Richmond passed anyway.
Before the elected representatives of Virginia this road again, buying the rights for at least a rudimentary knowledge of their abortion. Perhaps the following questions and answers will be useful for:
Question: Does the U.S. Constitution to establish the right to abortion?
Answer: Yes, but indirectly. The High Court has resolved the issue in Roe v.Wade's view that the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution the right to privacy, which is "wide enough for a woman to decide whether or not to terminate her pregnancy to cover."
Q. It 's the Roe ruling allowing abortions up until the day of delivery?
Answer: Yes and no. The Court said that a three trimesters of pregnancy of about 12 weeks to cover. Only during the first trimester a woman has aunrestricted right to terminate a pregnancy. In the second, which can interrupt the pregnancy, but only on a full service medical facility. During the third quarter, she can not have an abortion unless her life or health is in danger.
Q: What states have dealt with the cases of third trimester abortion?
Answer: the procedures of the time period (24 weeks or more) are extremely rare - less than one percent of the total. However, theStates have broad powers in Roe v. Wade to restrict third trimester abortions. In Virginia, for example, two physicians in addition to the attending physician certifies that a late-term procedure is necessary for life or health of the woman, to keep before it can be done.
Question: Has the U.S. Supreme Court later change of position on the second - trimester abortions?
Answer: Yes. In the 1989 case Webster v. reproductiveHealth services, the Supreme Court in a decision of 5 to 4 that a Missouri law that requires doctors to make the second - quarter viability tests were constitutional. The Court expressly refused to overturn Roe.
Question: not "unborn" have rights?
Answer: Mr. Justice Blackmun, writing the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade said that "the word 'person' used in the Fourteenth Amendment, not theunborn life. "
Question: Has the Roe v. Wade case was never confirmed by the Supreme Court?
Answer: Yes. In the 1992 case Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Roe v. Wade, with the emphasis on stare decisis (stand by decisions), and for other reasons.
Question: Congress not to approve a federal law in 2003 prohibiting the IDX procedures (intact dilation and extraction) abortions in some late-term?
Answer: Yes. United StatesSeveral Supreme Court challenges to the law, but in the case of Gonzales v. 2007 Carhart ruled 5-4 for approval. In practice, the law has had a limited impact, since less than one percent of all abortions under the authority of the law.
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