There had always been a little wiggle room in state abortion laws, because doctors were still permitted to perform them for therapeutic reasonsto save a womans life, for example.7 But what did that mean, exactly? An amicus curiae brief in Roe from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and several other medical groups observed that a woman suffering from heart disease, diabetes or cancer whose pregnancy worsens the underlying pathology may be denied a medically indicated therapeutic abortion under the statute because death is not certain.
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Katha Pollitt was a contemporary American poet, essayist and critic. Katha Pollitt is an American poet, essayist and critic. She is the author of four essay collections and two books of poetry. Read more on Wikipedia →