...foetal life ia already clear, and it becomes clearer in the light of the exception clause: "unless the same shall have been necessary to preserve the life...of such mother, or shall have been advised by two physician* to be necessary for such purpose." The clause is quite stringent, requiring objective necessity...

...exception clause. It said that: "unless the same shall have been necessary to preserve the life of such a mother or shall have been advised by two physicians to be necessary for .such a purpose." That is a stringent clause. Not appearance of necessity, not advice of physicians for some...

...Second, it incorporated a concept of therapeutic abortion by providing that an abortion was excused if it "shall have been necessary to preserve the life of...two physicians to be necessary for such purpose." By 1840, when Texas had received the common law," only eight American States »Conn. Stnt.. Tit 20....

...Second, it incorporated a concept of therapeutic abortion by providing that an abortion was excused if it "shall have been necessary to preserve the life of...two physicians to be necessary for such purpose." By 1840, when Texas had received the common law, only eight American States had statutes dealing with...

...abortion of any such woman, unless the same shall have been necessary to preserve the life of such woman, or shall have been advised by two physicians to be necessary for that purpose, shall, upon conviction, be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Revised Code...

...miscarriage of any suck woman, unless the same shall have been necessary to preserve the life of suck woman, or shall have been advised by two physicians to be necessary for thai purpose; shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in a county jail not more than one...

...Second, it incorporated a concept of therapeutic abortion by providing that an abortion was excused if it "shall have been necessary to preserve the life of...two physicians to be necessary for such purpose." By 1840, when Texas had received the common law, only eight American States had statutes dealing with...

...Second, it incorporated a concept of therapeutic abortion by providing that an abortion was excused if it "shall have been necessary to preserve the life of...two physicians to be necessary for such purpose." By 1840, when Texas had received the common law,... only eight American States had statutes dealing...

...illegal, though a lesser crime, and stipulated the first therapeutic exception: legalizing abortions "necessary to preserve the life of such mother, or...by two physicians to be necessary for such purpose" (Lader 1966, 87). This law became a model for legislation by other states, but before that precedent...

...abortion of any such woman, unless the same shall have been necessary to preserve the life of such woman, or shall have been advised by two physicians to be necessary for that purpose, shall, upon conviction, be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Revised Code...