1. Abortion

2. Facts Common 22% of all pregnancies (not including miscarriages)
3 in 10 American women have one by age 45
61% have one or more children
42% have income below poverty level
78% report religious affiliation
36% white, 30% African American, 25% Hispanic

3. Pro-Choice Pro-Life Woman has a right to her body
Government doesn't have right to force women to have a child
Pregnancy is a risk and responsibility
Cuts down on crime and lowers welfare recipients
Life begins at conception
Killing child
Psychological damage
Religious reasons

4. Roe v. Wade (1973) Constitutional right to an abortion
Right to privacy under 9th and 14th amendments
Fetus is not a person by “potential life” thus not constitutional rights of its own
State can regulate 3rd trimester, 2nd only to protect health of women, but cannot regulate 1st trimester

5. Harris v. McRae (1980) Court upheld “Hyde Amendment”
Restricted public funds to only when mothers life endangered
Since 1994 the amendment has permitted funding where pregnancy result of incest or rape

6. City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health (1983)
Court invalidated consent requirements and 24hr waiting period
Also invalidated law requiring abortions after first trimester to be performed at a hospital
And one requiring fetus to be buried

7. Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989)
Court upheld Missouri law which denied state funding and state employee participation in performing or counseling for abortion
Did not uphold provision for tests for fetal viability before aborting fetus 20 weeks or older

8. Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey (1992)
States could require parental consent for a minor’s abortion (judicial bypass available)
Require waiting between seeking and obtaining an abortion
Cant requiring giving notice to husband
Abandoned trimester framework and replaced with viability tests

9. Sternberg v. Carhart (2000)
Ruled unconstitutional on Nebraska’s ban on partial-birth abortion
Stricken down due to absence of an exception to the ban for “health of the mother” and description of procedure “vauge”

10. Hill v. Colorado (2000)
Colorado statute was upheld prohibiting sidewalk counseling within 100 feet of “health care facility”
Illegal to approach within 8 feet to “counsel, show sign, or pass out leaflet”

11. Nationally Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrance Act
Federal crime to intimidate abortion providers or women seeking abortions

12. States prohibiting by Consent laws Trans-vaginal ultrasounds
State scripted “education”
Waiting Periods
Not licensing doctors to administer abortion
Requiring facilities to meet standards higher than surgical operating rooms

13. States non prohibiting
Allow third trimester abortion in cases of mothers health, rape, incest
Also allowed if child not viable or would be too disabled to “function”
No parental consent