afer than childbirth. Also, it was declared that the word person in the Constitution of the United States "does not include the unborn," the court defined, within each of the three stages of pregnancy, the reciprocal limits of state power and individual freedom.
The Reagan and Bush administrations were very strong supporters of the right-to-life positions, as did many of their appointees to the federal judiciary. The Supreme Court, though sharply divided, generally declared unconstitutional those laws it found to place an unprecedented burden on a woman's right to obt
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