Is Roe v. Wade obsolete?

From: Human Life Review | Date: July 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

As science races ahead, it leaves in its trail mind-numbing ethical questions.1

Kass v. Kass will never be as famous as Roe v. Wade, but the recent ruling by New York State's highest court may well be just as important.

As everybody knows, in Roe the United States Supreme Court held (on January 22, 1973) that a woman has a constitutional right "to terminate her pregnancy before viability."2 Kass v. Kass, by contrast, is a New York divorce dispute over the custody and control of frozen embryos before pregnancy begins; it was decided by the New York Court of Appeals on May 7, 1998, and it ...

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