Law professor Sherry Colb, a former law clerk to Justice Blackmun and a vocal supporter of abortion rights, opens her blog post titled “In Defense of Viability” by offering these cogent criticisms of a regime that would make viability the line between permitted and prohibited abortions:
Viability … would appear to have little to recommend it as a border between prohibiting and permitting abortion. What changes when a fetus becomes viable outside the womb? What changes is more or less that the fetus’s lungs have developed enough to take in…
