Court affirms physician's choice of abortion procedure.
In Colautti v. Franklin the U. S. Supreme Court threw out those portions of a Pennsylvania statute making physicians criminally liable for performing abortions of a "viable" fetus except to preserve the health of the pregnant woman and, in such a case, requiring physicians to use the abortion technique offering the best opportunity for the fetus to be aborted alive.
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