...Katrina Kimport; Tracy A. Weitz Abstract Context: In the United States, fetal development markers, including “viability” and the point when a fetus can “feel pain,” have permeated the social imaginary of abortion, affecting public support for abortion and the legality and availability of care...

... of fetal viability; it also held that in the second trimester, a state can regulate abortions only where the state can show that the restrictive legislation promotes or protects maternal health; that only after the point of viability may a state prohibit abortions; but that even in the third...

... are not strong enough to support a prohibition of abortion or the imposition of a substantial obstacle to the woman’s effective right to elect the procedure. Second is a confirmation of the State’s power to restrict abortions after fetal viability, if the law contains exceptions...

..., allowing unrestricted abortion access during the first trimester, moderate restrictions during the second trimester, and the possibility of total abortion bans after fetal viability. However, federal and state governing bodies quickly limited Roe 's protections. There are two broad approaches...

... of pregnancy, but before fetal viability, the state can only regulate abortions when such regulations are reasonably related to the state’s inter- est in protecting the woman’s health. In the final trimester, however, be- cause the fetus if viable and the state has an interest in its “potential life...

... of the pregnancy” and “throughout pregnancy” (505 U.S. at 873, 932, 876). 3 The court held that this interest in fetal life, even before viability, was entirely consistent with Roe v. Wade : “That portion of the decision in Roe has been given too little acknowledgment and implementation by the Court in its...

... decision shifted abortion regulation to an undue burden standard. Since all aspects of reproductive health are interconnected, the database includes measures of laws regulating contraceptive access, prenatal substance use, fetal homicide, sex education, direct-entry midwives (DEMs), and health care access...

... of this procedure for reducing a twin pregnancy to a singleton pregnancy in the case of a diagnosis of fetal genetic disorder-the reason for which the technique was in fact utilized by Chitkara et al. Kanhai et al. report only one case, of a woman whose reaction to the diagnosis of a quintuplet pregnancy...

... overruling parts of Akron, the key opinions were careful to reconcile the state’s regulation with med- ical judgment. Chief Justice Rehnquist, writing for a plurality that included himself and Justices White and Kennedy, construed the Missouri statute at issue to require certain fetal viability tests...

.... Reviews 251 preventing prenatal harm, including controlling the behavior of pregnant women and eliminating occupational and environmental hazards. On the whole, these essays point out the negative impact of reproductive policies aimed at protecting “fetal rights.” Thus, policies that seek...

..., miscarriage, fetal death, con- genital malformations, and delayed developmental anomalies in liveborn children. This problem came to widespread public attention in 1975 with the publication of a report sponsored by the Department of Health, Edu- cation and Welfare on the occupational health...

... of Public Health and the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics, will be held 23–24 January 1998 at Boston University. The conference will address such issues as law and medicine before and after Roe, the viability line set by Roe, fetal protection and Roe, Roe and American politics...

..., fetal pain, and viability); results indicated that using these terms reduced participants' endorsement for abortion (Bueno et al. 2022 ). Taken together, these studies provide ample evidence that framing plays a pivotal role in shaping public abortion attitudes. The addition of more context within...

... of the Unborn Patient: A Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery (1998). Finally, the Pulitzer Prize, arguably the most promi- nent of the prizes awarded TSTAM, did not come until 1984, after much of the initial flurry of medical attention. So, one ought not to assume that TSTAM was widely known among physicians...

... be determined in advance that the payoff would be nil. In some cases-electronic fetal monitoring, for example-the technology may on balance be doing more harm than good.26But the most costly misuse of diagnostic testing is not the expensive, prominent ‘ ‘high technology” but common tests, endlessly...

... were it to have expanded Medicaid. The average per capita increase among all states is $2,925, ranging from $1,312 in Minnesota to $5,249 in Mississippi. 15. The heartbeat bill would ban all abortions after the fetal heartbeat is detected. 16. Representative Sears was regularly credited...