![]() This dangerous shift imperils women's health, limits their choices, and elevates the status of nonviable fetuses. ![]() ![]() Many of these bans have been successfully challenged in court, but the legal cost includes new credence given to the idea that states should increase the regulation of previability abortion. In addition, legislation to ban "partial birth abortions" have been based on the blatant untruth that healthy women are aborting healthy fetuses late in pregnancy. By allowing Pennsylvania to force women seeking abortion to listen to a state-scripted anti-abortion lecture and face a 24-hour delay, the court sent the message that states have the right to try to dissuade women from abortion. Casey to strip Roe of its requirement of governmental neutrality. ![]() By 1992, with the addition of two new anti-abortion judges, the court used the decision in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania vs. In 1980, the Supreme Court upheld laws restricting Medicaid funding, allowing states to favor childbirth over abortion, and allowing states to mandate parental involvement in the abortion decision of a minor. During this period, however, abortion laws have become more restrictive because the anti-abortion lobby began to target vulnerable young and low-income women. Since the 1973 decision, an entire generation of young women has grown up taking abortion rights for granted. ![]() Roe also impelled governmental neutrality in the abortion decision until the point of fetal viability. Wade ruling of the US Supreme Court recognized that the women could only participate freely and equally in society if they have the right to make autonomous decisions about pregnancy. ![]()
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