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Harris v. McRae

(34)

``Regardless of whether the freedom of a woman to choose to terminate her pregnancy for health reasons lies at the core or the periphery of the due process liberty recognized in [Roe v.] Wade, it simply does not follow that a woman's freedom of choice carries with it a constitutional entitlement to the financial resources to avail herself of the full range of protected choices.''

Justice Potter Stewart

Williams v. Zbaraz

(10)

``[A] participating State is not obligated under Title XIX [Medicaid] to pay for those medically necessary abortions for which federal reimbursement is unavailable...''

Justice Potter Stewart

H.L. v. Matheson

(26)

``That the requirement of notice to parents may inhibit some minors from seeking abortions is not a valid basis to void the statute... The Constitution does not compel a state to fine-tune its statutes so as to encourage or facilitate a bortions.''

Chief Justice Warren Burger

Akron v. Akron Center

(34)

``The Court has also recognized, because abortion is a medical procedure, that the full vindication of the woman's fundamental right necessarily requires that her physician be given 'the room he needs to make his best medical judgment.' The physician's exercise of this medical judgment encompasses both assisting the woman in the decisionmaking process and implementing her decision should she choose abortion.''

Justice Lewis Powell

Planned Parenthood v. Ashcroft

105

(18)

``In weighing the balance between protection of a woman's health and the comparatively small additional cost of a pathologist's examination, we cannot say that the Constitution requires that a State subordinate its interest in health to minimize to this extent the cost of abortions...''

Justice Lewis Powell

Simopoulos v. Virginia

123

(12)

``We consistently have recognized and reaffirm today that a State has an 'important and legitimate interest in the health of the mother' that becomes' ``compelling'' ...at approximately the end of the first trimester.''

Justice Lewis Powell

Thornburgh v. American College

135

(40)

``Few decisions are more personal and intimate, more properly private, or more basic to individual dignity and autonomy, than a woman's decision - with the guidance of her physician and within the limits specified in Roe - whether to end her pregnancy. A woman's right to make that choice freely is fundamental. Any other result, in our view, would protect inadequately a central part of the sphere of liberty that our law guarantees equally to all.''

Justice Harry Blackmun

Webster v. Reproductive Health Services

175

(46)

``Missouri's refusal to allow public employees to perform abortions in public hospitals leaves a pregnant woman with the same choices as if the State had chosen not to operate any public hospitals at all.''

Justice William Rehnquist

``For today, at least, the law of abortion stands undisturbed. For today, the women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows.''

Justice Harry Blackmun

The U.S. Constitution

221

(32)

Bibliography

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Index

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