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Abortion debate - some legal and ethical issues by Dr. Ruwantissa Abeyratne, United Nations, Montreal One of the landmark events in the Western world occurred in 1973 in the
United States where the Supreme Court, in the case of Roe vs. Wade,
decided that unduly restrictive State legislation regulating abortion was
unconstitutional. In this case, the Court ruled that a woman had the
constitutional right to obtain the abortion of her fetus freely, after
consultation with a doctor in the first trimester of pregnancy and in an
authorized clinic in the second trimester. Other Stories
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