1. Is Abortion Protected by the Constitution?
... the past, legal authorities have recognized the first noticeable movement of a fetus in the womb as a sign of its personhood. In Keeler v. The Superior Court of Amador County, Justice Burke quotes a scholar saying, ""The common law itself prohibited abortion after quickening (movement in the womb) and hanging a pregnant felon after quickening, because the life of a second human being would thereby be ... ...
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