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1989

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The Supreme Court, Privacy, And Abortion, George J. Annas Jan 1989

The Supreme Court, Privacy, And Abortion, George J. Annas

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Although states can regulate abortions after the point of fetal viability (or, more accurately, can restrict the induction of premature birth), since Roe only 13 states have enacted laws to restrict such abortions.8 Decisions after Roe In more than a dozen major cases over the succeeding 15 years, the Supreme Court applied Roe to specific attempts by some states to limit abortion rights during the first and second trimesters. [...]1989, the Court consistently struck down almost all such limitations. The Court did find it constitutional, however, for the state and federal governments to refuse to fund abortions through the Medicaid …


The Politics Of Transplantation Of Human Fetal Tissue, George J. Annas Jan 1989

The Politics Of Transplantation Of Human Fetal Tissue, George J. Annas

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Research involving human fetal tissue has been the subject of intense political debate in this country for almost two decades, and the use of fetal tissues in transplantation continues this controversy in another forum. Since Roe v. Wade ,1 the landmark decision on abortion by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973, the federal government has focused public attention on fetal research by creating panels of experts. "3 This conclusion was accepted on a vote of 15 to 2, and included recommendations that the decision to abort be kept independent of the decision to retrieve and use fetal tissue, that recipients …