"QUESTION: Mrs. Weddington, you’re attacking the statute on two grounds, are you not, vagueness- MRS. WEDDINGTON: That’s correct. QUESTION: -- and the Ninth Amendment. Do you base any weight on one argument as against the other? MRS. WEDDINGTON: Our Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, in Thompson vs. State, -- QUESTION: That’s a recent case? MRS. WEDDINGTON: Yes. In November of last year. QUESTION: Again on vagueness. MRS. WEDDINGTON: Yes. That particular case held that the Texas statute was not vague citing Vuitch. It’s my opinion that that reliance was misplaced. That in Vuitch, this Court had before it the D.C. statute which allowed abortion for the purpose of saving the life or the health, and this Court adapted the interpretation that health meant both mental and physical health And it seemed to me the Court’s language in that case talked a great deal about the fact that the doctor’s judgment goes to saving the health of the woman, that that that’s the kind of judgment he is used to making. In Texas that’s not the judgment he’s forced to make. The judgment in Texas is, is this necessary for the purpose of preserving the life of the woman. And the language of that statute has never been interpreted. That’s not the kind of judgment that a doctor is accustomed or perhaps even able to make."