in Roe v. Wade and other cases such as Webster v. Reproductive Health Services and Casey v. Planned Parenthood Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania has consistently affirmed that a woman has privacy rights under a penumbra of such rights established in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Kaminer (2001) notes that attacks on the basis constitutional right to obtain an abortion outlined in Roe have failed. In Roe, women were recognized as having the right to obtain a first and second trimester abortion while the state was recognized as having a compelling interest regarding third trimester abortions which would take place at a point whereupon the fetus becomes viable (Ponnuru, 2001). Morally, the people who support women's abortion rights contend that the primacy of the woman as an established human being must be mai
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