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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SecularBull who wrote (368974)	3/10/2003 12:33:40 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

At embryonic viability. >>> You mean, at the point a fetus is theoretically viable (with the aid of modern medicine) outside of the womb? >>> That was the basis for the Supreme Court's reasoning in the Roe v. Wade decision. They - somewhat arbitrarily - divided the normal nine months of pregnancy into three 'traunches', first, second, third 'trimester'... and argued that since a fetus was theoretically viable in the third trimester, States could regulate the availability of abortion then. And, since fetuses are not viable in the first trimester, States could not restrict abortion availability during that trimester. >>> As I have long argued (given that medical science must inevitably advance, leading ultimately to a time when an 'artificial womb' is possible, pushing the definition of 'viability' back to conception) by the logic given in Roe v. Wade... eventually the States will be able to regulate the availability of abortion from conception onwards.