59 ATION – DUE MONDAY DECEMBER 22 at 11:59PM In determining the biological point of emergent “fetal viability” as marking the limit of a pregnant woman’s right to privacy as offsetting a countervailing right of the government to protect such potential fetal life, the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 landmark decision in Roe v. Wade (as upheld in 1992, somewhat modified, in Planned Parenthood of S.E. Pennsylvania v. Casey) ruled that ◯ the interim point at which the fetus becomes ‘viable’ marks the earliest point at which the State’s interest in protecting fetal life can outweigh the pregnant woman’s interest in procreative liberty ◯ before the interim point at which the fetus becomes ‘viable’, the State’s interest in protecting potentual fetal life cannot outweigh the pregnant woman’s interest in procreative liberty ◯ throughout pregnancy, the State, in promoting its interest in the health of the mother, may regulate the abortion procedure in ways that are reasonably related to maternal health, and may take measures designed to advance this interest so long as their purpose is to persuade the woman to choose childbirth over abortion
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