...of fetal personhood in the Roe v. Wade majority opinion contains the following curious passage: We need not resolve the difficult question of when life...knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer.2 The "question of when life begins" clearly was the question of fetal personhood, since there...

...interests beyond the protection of the pregnant woman alone. 93 S. Ct. at 725. See also id. at 730: We need not resolve the difficult question of when life...disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology arc unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point [sic] in the development of man's...

...very closely related to the issue of "when life begins." In 1973, the court concluded ([8], p. 1): "we need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins, when those trained in the respective fields of medicine, philosophy and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus. The judiciary, at...

...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. It should be sufficient to note briefly the wide divergence of thinking on this most sensitive 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. It should be sufficient to note briefly the wide divergence of thinking on this most sensitive and...

...the difficult question of when life begins." 410 US at 159. The Court went on to say that "( w Ihcn those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine,...not in a position to speculate as to the answer." Id. The Court did state that "we do not agree that, by adopting one theory of life, Texas may override...

...route in Roe v. Wade, remarking that since medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to reach a consensus, "the judiciary, at this point in the development...is not in a position to speculate as to the answer" (Shapiro 1995, p. 64). The work of John Rawls suggests a more general philosophical justification for...

...interests beyond the protection of the pregnant woman alone. 93 S. CL at 723. See also id. at 730: We need not resolve the difficult question of when life...trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosopby, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point [sic]...

...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 view of all this, we do not agree that, by adopting one theory of life, Texas may override the rights...

...of his philosophical ignorance, in the opinion he wrote for the Court in Roe v. Wade,u he said "We need not resolve the difficult question of when life...not in a position to speculate as to the answer." Having said that, Blackmun proceeded to declare for the Court that a woman's right to choose to abort,...