A warning before we start the show.

There are descriptions of graphic violence

and other heavy content in this episode.

It begins on January 22nd, 1973,

when the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Roe versus Wade.

Several decisions of this court make

clear that freedom of personal choice in matters

of marriage and family life is one of the liberties

protected by the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.

Loving versus Virginia, Griswold versus Connecticut.

We recognize the right of the individual married or single

to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion

into matters so fundamentally affecting a person

as the decision whether to bear or begget a child.

That right necessarily includes the right of a woman

to decide whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

I think it was an earthquake.

The Supreme Court today ruled that abortion is completely

a private matter to be decided by mother and doctor

in the first three months of pregnancy.

The word person, as used in the 14th Amendment,

does not include the unborn.

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