Roe and the new frontier

While the abortion debate, which was legally settled by the US Supreme Court in 1973, rages on the terms of a right to fetal life and an opposing right to a woman's choice, outside of the context of abortion, advances in reproduction and technology outpace the assumptions underlying those positions. Precisely on this reason, Roy argues that courts have erroneously imported the Supreme Court's conclusion in Roe v. Wade that a fetus is not a constitutional person into areas of law outside the context of abortion.