The lower court refused to grant Roe's desired injunction, but declared the criminal abortion statutes were void.

Old abortion statutes that were declared void in 1973 were officially removed with the new law.

That case, United States v. Vuitch, began as a challenge to the District of Columbia's criminal abortion statute.

Texas first enacted a criminal abortion statute in 1854.

In 1971, the same court, in affirming a physician's abortion conviction, again held that the State's abortion statutes were not unconstitutionally vague or overbroad.

Ms. Pine disputed Mr. Baker's contention that there are new standards for abortion statutes squelched by the 1976 injunction.

The abortion statute in this western Pacific territory is the nation's most restrictive.

In November 1969, Judge Gesell declared that the District of Columbia's abortion statute was unconstitutional.

If the legislation becomes law, the only abortion statute that would be as restrictive as Louisiana's is Guam's.

A Federal district judge here has temporarily blocked enforcement of a new Guam law that is the most restrictive abortion statute in any American jurisdiction.