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Roe v. Wade | 3. Women vs. Connecticut

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Newman's Decision to Break the Tie Was a Big One for the State.

Judge newman found nancy sterns and katy worback's privacy argument to be persuasive. The question he was facing felt more complicated than anything he'd ever ruled on. Viability is the moment when a foetus can survive outside of the womb. Newman didn't note the exact number of weeks in his opinion. He understood that the viability threshold might change as medical science advanced. To day, it comes at roughly 23 or 24 weeks.

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