"Few decisions are more personal and intimate, more properly private, or more basic to individual dignity and autonomy, than a woman’s decision-with the guidance of her physician and with the limits specified in “Roe”-whether to end her pregnancy. A woman’s right to make that choice freely is fundamental. Any other result, in our view, would protect inadequately a central part of the sphere of liberty that our law guarantees to all."
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Harry Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court, majority in Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, (1986).
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