...Amendment and, thus, does not have the rights guaranteed by the Constitution. The justices ruminated, "We need not resolve the difficult question of when life...not in a position to speculate as to the answer." Nevertheless, the Court allowed that the medical determination of viability, "the capability of meaningful...

...being a person, especially a person who needs medical care. 9. Defining Personhood in Biomedical Ethics When those trained in the respective disciplines of...knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer.55 The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity...

...in The Problem of Abortion, ed. Joel Feinberg, 2nd ed. (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1984), 58-64. 6. "We need not resolve the difficult question of when life...to speculate as to the answer" (Roe v. Wade, 410 US 113, 159 [1973] [Blackmun, J., for the Court]). 7. "Viability, which focuses on technological factors...

...therefore, the State .has a compelling interest in protecting that life from and after conception. We need not resolve the difficult question of when life...is not in a position to speculate as to the answer. Opinion of the Court 410 US It should be sufficient to note briefly the wide divergence of thinking...

...that the word "person," as used in the Fourteenth Amendment, does not include the unborn. . . . We need not resolve the difficult question of when life...is not in a position to speculate as to the answer. In the Georgia case, the Court again emphasized the doctor's right to make medical judgments (as opposed...

...marshaled to support the need for a political resolution that is independent of those opinions: We need not resolve the difficult question of when life...knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer.6 I have criticized liberalism for failing to account religion as an intellectual resource or...

...conception." The Court said that "[w]e need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. . . . [T]he judiciary, at this point in the development...not in a position to speculate as to the answer." 28 But the proper question was not what answer the judiciary, or anyone else, would give, but only...

...from the Fourteenth Amendment, life begins at conception and is present throughout pregnancy.... We need not resolve the difficult question of when life...not in a position to speculate as to the answer.... (a) For the stage prior to approximately the end of the first trimester, the abortion decision and...

...therefore, the State has a compelling interest in protecting that life from and after conception. We need not resolve the difficult question of when life...is not in a position to speculate as to the answer. . . . In areas other than criminal abortion, the law has been reluctant to endorse any theory that...

...Constitution, and thus does not have the rights guaranteed by the Constitution. The decision noted, "we need not resolve the difficult question of when life...not in a position to speculate as to the answer." Nevertheless, the Court allowed that the medical determination of viability, "the capability of meaningful...