Ethical problems of abortion.

States during the first trimester of pregnancy. After the first trimester, the state can restrict them by regulations protecting the pregnant woman's health; and after 'viability' the state may regulate or forbid abortions except where the medical judgment is made that an abortion is necessary to safeguard the life or the health of the pregnant woman. But it would be wrong to conclude from these decisions that no moral distinctions between abortions can now be made-that