Endnotes to Part 16: Death of a Child
38. Unfortunately, the subcommittee’s view was to develop evidence to limit Roe v. Wade rather than to move toward its reversal.
39. Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992) 112 S.Ct. 2791, wherein the court stated: “Men and women of good conscience can disagree, and we suppose some always shall disagree, about the profound moral and spiritual implications of terminating a pregnancy, even in its earliest stage. Some of us as individuals find abortion offensive to our most basic principles of morality, but that cannot control our decision. Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code. The underlying constitutional issue is whether the State can resolve these philosophic questions in such a definitive way that a woman lacks all choice in the matter, except perhaps in those rare circumstances in which the pregnancy is itself a danger to her own life or health, or is the result of rape or incest”.
