Top N.J. Court Reverses Abortion Ruling

Source: Associated Press

Top N.J. Court Reverses Abortion Ruling
By JEFFREY GOLD 09.12.07, 4:24 PM ET

NEWARK, N.J. - A doctor has no duty to tell a woman considering an abortion that her embryo is an "existing human being," a unanimous New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, averting a trial over when human life begins.

The decision, citing past rulings, said the court "will not place a duty on doctors when there is no consensus in the medical community or among the public" on when life begins.

The 5-0 Supreme Court ruling reversed a unanimous ruling by a three-judge appeals panel. Abortion cases pending in Illinois and South Dakota have raised the same issue.

"On the profound issue of when life begins, this court cannot drive public policy in one particular direction by the engine of the common law when the opposing sides, which represent so many of our citizens, are arrayed along a deep societal and philosophical divide," New Jersey Justice Barry T. Albin wrote for the court.



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Hopefully the fundies are losing steam .

They never had steam in NJ.

...to tell them which church to attend. Now, the fundies just need to stop trying
to tell the doctors how to practice medicine.

would think any pregnant female wouldn't already have her own opinion on this issue anyway! Even young teens have the opinions from the way their parents taught them. It shouldn't be any Dr's job to educate on faith issues.