“In other cases, as in this one, the additional difficulties and continuing stigma of unwed motherhood may be involved. There is also the distress, for all concerned, associated with the unwanted child, and there is the problem of bringing a child into a family already unable, psychologically and otherwise, to care for it. Mental and physical health may be taxed by child care. Maternity, or additional offspring, may force upon the woman a distressful life and future.

“Specific and direct harm medically diagnosable even in early pregnancy may be involved. The detriment that the State would impose upon the pregnant woman by denying this choice altogether is apparent. is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. The Texas law infringed on women’s right to privacy, was overly broad and violated the due process clause in the US constitution’s 14th amendment, the decision said.

“Pregnancy often comes more than once to the same woman, and in the general population, if man is to survive, it will always be with us,” supreme court justice Harry Blackmun, a Republican nominated by the president Richard Nixon, wrote in the sweeping majority opinion that detailed attitudes about abortion from the time of the Persian empire.

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