viability

A seventeen-year old girl won her court petition for an abortion despite the fact that there was no issue of fetus viability. The minor had suffered repeated sexual abuse at the hands of her father and uncle for the past six years. The court reaffirmed constitutional and human rights protections for fetuses against abortions, but explained that the right to life is not protected from conception to death with the same intensity.

In light of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade, which established the right to an abortion prior to fetal viability, the plaintiffs in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v.