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Roe v. Wade
{{short description|1973 US Supreme Court judgement on abortion}}
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{{Infobox SCOTUS case
| Litigants = Roe v. Wade
| ArgueDate = December 13
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Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote a concurrence in which he wrote that he thought it would be permissible to allow a state to require two physicians to certify an abortion before it could be performed.{{sfnp|Chemerinsky|2019|loc=§&nbsp;10.3.3.1, p. 888, note 47}} His concurrence also states:<ref name=burgerconcurring>[http://landmarkcases.c-span.org/pdf/Roe_Burger_Concurrence.pdf ''Roe v. Wade'', Mr. Chief Justice Burger, concurring]
 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220508051032/http://landmarkcases.c-span.org/pdf/Roe_Burger_Concurrence.pdf |date=ಮೇ 8, 2022 }}, ''Landmark Cases'', C-SPAN, January 22, 1973</ref><blockquote>I do not read the Court's holdings today as having the sweeping consequences attributed to them by the dissenting Justices; the dissenting views discount the reality that the vast majority of physicians observe the standards of their profession, and act only on the basis of carefully deliberated medical judgments relating to life and health. Plainly, the Court today rejects any claim that the Constitution re(contracted; show full)[[Category:American Civil Liberties Union litigation]]
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