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Appendix A: Summary of the Supreme Court Decisions on Abortion, Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, January 22, 1973
Pages 128-131

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... While the Roe decision invalidated most criminal abortion statutes as being unconstitutional and prohibited state intervention during the first trimester of pregnancy, the Doe decision went on to outline what the states could do under the Constitution to regulate abortion procedures during the second trimester.
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From page 129...
... In other cases, as in this one, the additional difficulties and continuing stigma of unwed motherhood may be involved. All these are factors the woman and her responsible physician necessarily will consider in consult at ion .V The majority of the Court lodged this right in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment which forbids the states to "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law." In the Court's opinion, the Texas and Georgia statutes limiting abortion operated to deprive pregnant women of liberty without due process, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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... abortion procedures, in all hospitals, had to be approved by a hospital staff abortion committee; and (3) the performing physician's judgment had to be corroborated by independent examinations of the patient by two other licensed physicians.
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... . The Court's decision to allow state regulation of abortion only after the first trimester of pregnancy was based, in large part, on New York state data from 1970-72, which indicated that maternal mortality associated with first trimester abortions was extremely low.
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