https://citizendium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Roe_v._Wade&feed=atom&action=historyRoe v. Wade - Revision history2024-03-28T16:30:24ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.5https://citizendium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Roe_v._Wade&diff=915455&oldid=prevPat Palmer at 20:45, 2 February 20242024-02-02T20:45:46Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''''Roe v. Wade''''', 441 US 113 (1973), was a [[United States of America]] [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] decision that made abortion legal in the United States. It was overturned in 2022, and each state was left to decide about the legality of abortion. The 1973 decision overturned most (46 of 50 states at the time had laws in contravention of the ruling) state laws outlawing [[abortion]], as it found them to be in violation of the constitutional right to privacy that the Court found in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868). Justice [[Harry Blackmun]], a [[Richard Nixon]] apointee, was the author of the majority opinion, with multiple concurrences written by other justices. [[Byron White]] and [[William Rehnquist]] dissented from the decision and wrote separate opinions. The ruling was overturned in June 2022, by a 6–3 vote, in ''Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization''.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''''Roe v. Wade''''', 441 US 113 (1973), was a [[United States of America]] [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] decision that made abortion legal in the United States. It was overturned in 2022, and each state was left to decide about the legality of abortion. The 1973 decision overturned most (46 of 50 states at the time had laws in contravention of the ruling) state laws outlawing [[abortion]], as it found them to be in violation of the constitutional right to privacy that the Court found in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868). Justice [[Harry <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A. </ins>Blackmun]], a [[Richard Nixon]] apointee, was the author of the majority opinion, with multiple concurrences written by other justices. [[Byron White]] and [[William Rehnquist]] dissented from the decision and wrote separate opinions. The ruling was overturned in June 2022, by a 6–3 vote, in ''Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization''.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Pat Palmerhttps://citizendium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Roe_v._Wade&diff=884041&oldid=prevPat Palmer: making the opener for succinct for the important information2023-03-08T21:20:05Z<p>making the opener for succinct for the important information</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''''Roe v. Wade''''', 441 US 113 (1973 <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">- 2022</del>), was a [[United States of America]] [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] decision that overturned most (46 of 50 states at the time had laws in contravention of the ruling) state laws outlawing [[abortion]], as it found them to be in violation of the constitutional right to privacy that the Court found in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868). Justice [[Harry Blackmun]], a [[Richard Nixon]] apointee, was the author of the majority opinion, with multiple concurrences written by other justices. [[Byron White]] and [[William Rehnquist]] dissented from the decision and wrote separate opinions. The ruling was overturned in June 2022, by a 6–3 vote, in ''Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization''.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''''Roe v. Wade''''', 441 US 113 (1973), was a [[United States of America]] [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] decision that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">made abortion legal in the United States. It was overturned in 2022, and each state was left to decide about the legality of abortion. The 1973 decision </ins>overturned most (46 of 50 states at the time had laws in contravention of the ruling) state laws outlawing [[abortion]], as it found them to be in violation of the constitutional right to privacy that the Court found in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868). Justice [[Harry Blackmun]], a [[Richard Nixon]] apointee, was the author of the majority opinion, with multiple concurrences written by other justices. [[Byron White]] and [[William Rehnquist]] dissented from the decision and wrote separate opinions. The ruling was overturned in June 2022, by a 6–3 vote, in ''Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization''.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Pat Palmerhttps://citizendium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Roe_v._Wade&diff=884040&oldid=prevPat Palmer at 21:18, 8 March 20232023-03-08T21:18:23Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''''Roe v. Wade''''', 441 US 113 (1973), was a [[United States of America]] [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] decision that overturned most (46 of 50 states at the time had laws in contravention of the ruling) state laws outlawing [[abortion]], as it found them to be in violation of the constitutional right to privacy that the Court found in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868). Justice [[Harry Blackmun]], a [[Richard Nixon]] apointee, was the author of the majority opinion, with multiple concurrences written by other justices. [[Byron White]] and [[William Rehnquist]] dissented from the decision and wrote separate opinions. The ruling was overturned in June 2022, by a 6–3 vote, in ''Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization''.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''''Roe v. Wade''''', 441 US 113 (1973 <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">- 2022</ins>), was a [[United States of America]] [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] decision that overturned most (46 of 50 states at the time had laws in contravention of the ruling) state laws outlawing [[abortion]], as it found them to be in violation of the constitutional right to privacy that the Court found in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868). Justice [[Harry Blackmun]], a [[Richard Nixon]] apointee, was the author of the majority opinion, with multiple concurrences written by other justices. [[Byron White]] and [[William Rehnquist]] dissented from the decision and wrote separate opinions. The ruling was overturned in June 2022, by a 6–3 vote, in ''Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization''.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Pat Palmerhttps://citizendium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Roe_v._Wade&diff=884012&oldid=prevJack S. Byrom: Rewritten to reflect the fact that the plaintiff in the case is now deceased2023-03-08T21:00:38Z<p>Rewritten to reflect the fact that the plaintiff in the case is now deceased</p>
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</table>Jack S. Byromhttps://citizendium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Roe_v._Wade&diff=884010&oldid=prevJack S. Byrom: added ''Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization' citation2023-03-08T20:58:26Z<p>added ''Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization' citation</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''''Roe v. Wade''''', 441 US 113 (1973), was a [[United States of America]] [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] decision that overturned most (46 of 50 states at the time had laws in contravention of the ruling) state laws outlawing [[abortion]], as it found them to be in violation of the constitutional right to privacy that the Court found in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868). Justice [[Harry Blackmun]], a [[Richard Nixon]] apointee, was the author of the majority opinion, with multiple concurrences written by other justices. [[Byron White]] and [[William Rehnquist]] dissented from the decision and wrote separate opinions. The ruling was overturned in 2022.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''''Roe v. Wade''''', 441 US 113 (1973), was a [[United States of America]] [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] decision that overturned most (46 of 50 states at the time had laws in contravention of the ruling) state laws outlawing [[abortion]], as it found them to be in violation of the constitutional right to privacy that the Court found in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868). Justice [[Harry Blackmun]], a [[Richard Nixon]] apointee, was the author of the majority opinion, with multiple concurrences written by other justices. [[Byron White]] and [[William Rehnquist]] dissented from the decision and wrote separate opinions. The ruling was overturned in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">June </ins>2022<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, by a 6–3 vote, in ''Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization''</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Jack S. Byromhttps://citizendium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Roe_v._Wade&diff=880233&oldid=prevPat Palmer: Text replacement - "United States" to "United States of America"2023-02-02T19:08:23Z<p>Text replacement - "<a href="/wiki/index.php?title=United_States&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="United States (page does not exist)">United States</a>" to "<a href="/wiki/United_States_of_America" title="United States of America">United States of America</a>"</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''''Roe v. Wade''''', 441 US 113 (1973), was a [[United States]] [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] decision that overturned most (46 of 50 states at the time had laws in contravention of the ruling) state laws outlawing [[abortion]], as it found them to be in violation of the constitutional right to privacy that the Court found in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868). Justice [[Harry Blackmun]], a [[Richard Nixon]] apointee, was the author of the majority opinion, with multiple concurrences written by other justices. [[Byron White]] and [[William Rehnquist]] dissented from the decision and wrote separate opinions. The ruling was overturned in 2022.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''''Roe v. Wade''''', 441 US 113 (1973), was a [[United States <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of America</ins>]] [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] decision that overturned most (46 of 50 states at the time had laws in contravention of the ruling) state laws outlawing [[abortion]], as it found them to be in violation of the constitutional right to privacy that the Court found in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868). Justice [[Harry Blackmun]], a [[Richard Nixon]] apointee, was the author of the majority opinion, with multiple concurrences written by other justices. [[Byron White]] and [[William Rehnquist]] dissented from the decision and wrote separate opinions. The ruling was overturned in 2022.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Pat Palmerhttps://citizendium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Roe_v._Wade&diff=875383&oldid=prevPat Palmer at 14:24, 13 December 20222022-12-13T14:24:44Z<p></p>
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</table>Pat Palmerhttps://citizendium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Roe_v._Wade&diff=875380&oldid=prevPat Palmer at 14:21, 13 December 20222022-12-13T14:21:15Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The consequences of the plaintiff's victory meant that abortion in the United States was legal until the point at which a fetus becomes ''viable'' - set in the court at a maximum of twenty-eight weeks. However, in practice, most medical professionals only performed elective abortion in the first trimester (within 12 weeks of fertilization). Later term <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">abortions </del>generally required health concerns for either the mother or the fetus. </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The consequences of the plaintiff's victory meant that abortion in the United States was legal until the point at which a fetus becomes ''viable'' - set in the court at a maximum of twenty-eight weeks. However, in practice, most medical professionals only performed elective abortion in the first trimester (within 12 weeks of fertilization). Later term <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(after 12 weeks) </ins>generally required health concerns for either the mother or the fetus. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Abortion-related cases that have reached the Supreme Court since Roe include [[Webster v. Reproductive Health Services]] (1989), [[Planned Parenthood v. Casey]] (1992), [[Stenberg v. Carhart]] (2000) and [[Gonzales v. Carhart]] (2003). The nominations to the Supreme Court in the presidential term of [[Donald Trump]] are widely considered to be the deciding factor in the overturning of the 1973 decision in June of 2022. Six months later, abortion had become illegal or inaccessible in roughly half of the country, because the legality of abortion is now left up to the individual states. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Abortion-related cases that have reached the Supreme Court since Roe include [[Webster v. Reproductive Health Services]] (1989), [[Planned Parenthood v. Casey]] (1992), [[Stenberg v. Carhart]] (2000) and [[Gonzales v. Carhart]] (2003). The nominations to the Supreme Court in the presidential term of [[Donald Trump]] are widely considered to be the deciding factor in the overturning of the 1973 decision in June of 2022. Six months later, abortion had become illegal or inaccessible in roughly half of the country, because the legality of abortion is now left up to the individual states. </div></td></tr>
</table>Pat Palmerhttps://citizendium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Roe_v._Wade&diff=875378&oldid=prevPat Palmer: Clarifying the weeks allowed for abortion in the U S - mostly 12, more only if concerns for health of mother or child2022-12-13T14:13:12Z<p>Clarifying the weeks allowed for abortion in the U S - mostly 12, more only if concerns for health of mother or child</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The plaintiff, whose privacy was masked as 'Jane Roe,' was Norma L. McCorvey, a pregnant Texan woman who claimed to have become pregnant as the result of rape. There were co-plaintiffs too: a "childless married couple (the Does), the wife not being pregnant, separately attacked the laws, basing alleged injury on the future possibilities of contraceptive failure, pregnancy, unpreparedness for parenthood, and impairment of the wife's health".<ref>Mr Justice Blackmun's majority opinion</ref> The defendant, Henry Wade, was the District Attorney of [[Dallas County]] and represented the State of Texas. McCorvey is now a pro-life activist.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The plaintiff, whose privacy was masked as 'Jane Roe,' was Norma L. McCorvey, a pregnant Texan woman who claimed to have become pregnant as the result of rape. There were co-plaintiffs too: a "childless married couple (the Does), the wife not being pregnant, separately attacked the laws, basing alleged injury on the future possibilities of contraceptive failure, pregnancy, unpreparedness for parenthood, and impairment of the wife's health".<ref>Mr Justice Blackmun's majority opinion</ref> The defendant, Henry Wade, was the District Attorney of [[Dallas County]] and represented the State of Texas. McCorvey is now a pro-life activist.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">practical </del>consequences of the plaintiff's victory meant that abortion in the United States was legal until the point at which a fetus becomes ''viable'' - set in the court at a maximum of twenty-eight weeks.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The consequences of the plaintiff's victory meant that abortion in the United States was legal until the point at which a fetus becomes ''viable'' - set in the court at a maximum of twenty-eight weeks. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> However, in practice, most medical professionals only performed elective abortion in the first trimester (within 12 weeks of fertilization). Later term abortions generally required health concerns for either the mother or the fetus. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Abortion-related cases that have reached the Supreme Court since Roe include [[Webster v. Reproductive Health Services]] (1989), [[Planned Parenthood v. Casey]] (1992), [[Stenberg v. Carhart]] (2000) and [[Gonzales v. Carhart]] (2003). The nominations to the Supreme Court in the presidential term of [[Donald Trump]] are widely considered to be the deciding factor in the overturning of the 1973 decision in June of 2022. Six months later, abortion had become illegal or inaccessible in roughly half of the country, because the legality of abortion is now left up to the individual states. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Abortion-related cases that have reached the Supreme Court since Roe include [[Webster v. Reproductive Health Services]] (1989), [[Planned Parenthood v. Casey]] (1992), [[Stenberg v. Carhart]] (2000) and [[Gonzales v. Carhart]] (2003). The nominations to the Supreme Court in the presidential term of [[Donald Trump]] are widely considered to be the deciding factor in the overturning of the 1973 decision in June of 2022. Six months later, abortion had become illegal or inaccessible in roughly half of the country, because the legality of abortion is now left up to the individual states. </div></td></tr>
</table>Pat Palmerhttps://citizendium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Roe_v._Wade&diff=875376&oldid=prevPeter Jackson: & this2022-12-13T11:41:49Z<p>& this</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The plaintiff, whose privacy was masked as 'Jane Roe,' was Norma L. McCorvey, a pregnant Texan woman who claimed to have become pregnant as the result of rape. There were co-plaintiffs too: a "childless married couple (the Does), the wife not being pregnant, separately attacked the laws, basing alleged injury on the future possibilities of contraceptive failure, pregnancy, unpreparedness for parenthood, and impairment of the wife's health".<ref>Mr Justice Blackmun's majority opinion</ref> The defendant, Henry Wade, was the District Attorney of [[Dallas County]] and represented the State of Texas. McCorvey is now a pro-life activist.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The plaintiff, whose privacy was masked as 'Jane Roe,' was Norma L. McCorvey, a pregnant Texan woman who claimed to have become pregnant as the result of rape. There were co-plaintiffs too: a "childless married couple (the Does), the wife not being pregnant, separately attacked the laws, basing alleged injury on the future possibilities of contraceptive failure, pregnancy, unpreparedness for parenthood, and impairment of the wife's health".<ref>Mr Justice Blackmun's majority opinion</ref> The defendant, Henry Wade, was the District Attorney of [[Dallas County]] and represented the State of Texas. McCorvey is now a pro-life activist.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The practical consequences of the plaintiff's victory meant that abortion in the United States <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is </del>legal until the point at which a fetus becomes ''viable'' - set in the court at a maximum of twenty-eight weeks.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The practical consequences of the plaintiff's victory meant that abortion in the United States <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was </ins>legal until the point at which a fetus becomes ''viable'' - set in the court at a maximum of twenty-eight weeks.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Abortion-related cases that have reached the Supreme Court since Roe include [[Webster v. Reproductive Health Services]] (1989), [[Planned Parenthood v. Casey]] (1992), [[Stenberg v. Carhart]] (2000) and [[Gonzales v. Carhart]] (2003). The nominations to the Supreme Court in the presidential term of [[Donald Trump]] are widely considered to be the deciding factor in the overturning of the 1973 decision in June of 2022. Six months later, abortion had become illegal or inaccessible in roughly half of the country, because the legality of abortion is now left up to the individual states. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Abortion-related cases that have reached the Supreme Court since Roe include [[Webster v. Reproductive Health Services]] (1989), [[Planned Parenthood v. Casey]] (1992), [[Stenberg v. Carhart]] (2000) and [[Gonzales v. Carhart]] (2003). The nominations to the Supreme Court in the presidential term of [[Donald Trump]] are widely considered to be the deciding factor in the overturning of the 1973 decision in June of 2022. Six months later, abortion had become illegal or inaccessible in roughly half of the country, because the legality of abortion is now left up to the individual states. </div></td></tr>
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