"Mary Doe" joins "Jane Roe" in pro-life ranks.Sandra Cano, the woman identified as "Mary Doe" in a companion case to the 1973 Roe v. Wade Roe v. Wade, case decided in 1973 by the U.S. Supreme Court. Along with Doe v. Bolton, this decision legalized abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy. Supreme Court abortion decision, "says she wants the ruling that allowed abortion on demand to be overturned," reported the LifeNews.com wire service on August 25th. "I'm going back to court to right a wrong," stated Cano at a press conference called by the Justice Foundation, a Texas-based legal group representing both "Doe" and Norma McCorvey Norma Leah McCorvey (née Nelson born September 22, 1947 in Simmesport, Louisiana) is best known as "Jane Roe" in the landmark Roe v. Wade lawsuit in which a 1973 U.S. (aka "Jane Roe"). "Abortion has hurt millions of women, and I regret my role." The Doe decision is crucial in that it defined health--as pertaining to the decision to abort (1) To exit a function or application without saving any data that has been changed. (2) To stop a transmission. (programming) abort - To terminate a program or process abnormally and usually suddenly, with or without diagnostic information. a child--to include "all factors ... physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman's age...." Since Roe v. Wade held that maternal health Maternal health care is a concept that encompasses preconception, prenatal, and postnatal care. Goals of preconception care can include providing health promotion, screening and interventions for women of reproductive age to reduce risk factors that might affect future pregnancies. considerations can justify an abortion at any stage of pregnancy, the definition handed down in Doe effectively permits abortion on demand at any point before birth. This includes the gruesome, and medically unwarranted, method of infanticide infanticide (ĭnfăn`təsīd) [Lat.,=child murder], the putting to death of the newborn with the consent of the parent, family, or community. Infanticide often occurs among peoples whose food supply is insecure (e.g. called partial-birth abortion partial-birth abortion n. A late-term abortion, especially one in which a viable fetus is partially delivered through the cervix before being extracted. Not in technical use. . Like McCorvey, Cano insists that she was deceived, manipulated, and exploited by pro-abortion legal activists 30 years ago. "She sought legal aid--nor for an abortion--[but] rather to obtain a divorce from a convicted child molester and to regain custody of her two children who were in foster care," reported LifeNews.com. "Her pro-abortion attorneys misrepresented her and, instead, sought to overturn Georgia's laws requiring three doctors to certify that an abortion was medically necessary medically necessary Managed care adjective Referring to a covered service or treatment that is absolutely necessary to protect and enhance the health status of a Pt, and could adversely affect the Pt's condition if omitted, in accordance with accepted ." "The truth is that I did not seek or want an abortion," recalled Cano. "I was young, uninformed, and in a difficult situation. Not once in the process was l given an opportunity to speak, and no judge or attorney in court asked me how I felt about abortion." On behalf of both Cano and McCorvey, the Justice Foundation has filed a motion under "Rule 60" of the Federal Rules of Procedure, under which the original parties in a lawsuit can ask a court to overturn a decision. |
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