Many believe that the right to life begins with conception and is pristine. Others believe that government has no right to interfere with a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion. At the heart of the dispute is the 1972 Supreme Court finding that legitimized abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy.
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Roe v. Wade (full text of court decision)
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Full text of the 1973 Supreme Court decision that prevented any state from criminalizing abortion: Roe v. Wade (410 U.S. 113).
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