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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, Januar r 22, 1992
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The Pennsylvania case will be argued in April, with a decision expected by July — in time to make abortion a key issue in this year's presidential, congressional and state elections.
The court was asked in competing appeals from Pennsylvania officials and abortion clinic operators to say the law violates the statute. Wade remains the law of the land.
that women have a constitutional right to an abortion.
The court's brief order Tuesday was ambiguous. The justices said they would study the Pennsylvania law's requirement that they would examine the 1973 ruling.
As the justicees acted, dozens of anti abortion protesters tried to block access to two downtown Washington abortion clinics while abortion-rights activists escorted women to their appointments inside. Hundreds of the demonstrators were arrested.
A massive demonstration is expected outside the Supreme Court building today — the 19th anniversary of the court's Roe vs. Wade ruling saying
The justices in 1989 allowed states to make it more difficult for women to obtain abortions but stopped short of reversing the 1973 ruling.
In the Pennsylvania case, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that recent high court rulings had eroded the sweeping legal protection that Roe vs. Wade gave to women seeking abortions.
The appeals court said that states now may require doctors to tell women seeking abortions about fetal development and alternatives to abortion, and then require those women to wait 24 hours before ending their pregnancies.
Also upheld was a state regulation requiring doctors to keep detailed records, subject to public disclosure, of each abortion performed.
Abortion clinic operators appealed the 3rd Circuit court ruling.
The appeals court struck down one aspect of the Pennsylvania law that required women in most cases to notify their husbands before obtaining abortions. That part of the ruling was
appealed by state officials
The Supreme Court in 1986 struck down, by a 5-4 vote, almost identical regulations imposed by Pennsylvania. But three members of that fivejustice majority have since retired.
One key to predicting the eventual ruling is the question of whether the court still considers abortion a fundamental right — one of the pillars supporting its 1973 decision.
"The critical question for the court whether the right to choose an abortion is a fundamental constitutional right," said Kathryn Kolbert of the American Civil Liberties Union. "They could not uphold this (Pennsylvania) law without overruling Roe vs. Wade."
In its 1973 decision, the court for the first time legalized abortion nationwide. Justice Harry Blackmun's opinion for a 7-2 court was based on the doctrine, previously devised by the court, of a woman's constitutional right to privacy.
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