Abortion Debate Scrapbook
November, 1989
Webster vs. Reproductive health servicesThe Supreme Court decision on Webster upholds the state of Missouri's:• ban on abortions in public hospitals or by public employees when the mother's life is not at stake;• ban on using tax money for counseling women about abortions;• provision that can require doctors to determine if a fetus 20 weeks or older is capable of surviving outside the womb (despite scientific evidence that "the earliest point of viability has remained virtually unchanged at...
