CBS Evening News - 1973-01-22
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[0:00] News headquarters in New York this is
[0:03] the CBS Evening News with Walter
[0:05] Cronkite and Eric Severide in New York
[0:08] George Herman in Washington Leslie Stahl
[0:11] in Washington Fred P Graham in Atlanta
[0:13] Peter kalasher in Paris Tom Fenton in
[0:17] Paris Robert shackney in Des Moines and
[0:20] tonight A CBS Evening News special
[0:22] report the energy crisis
[0:25] good evening in a landmark ruling the
[0:28] Supreme Court today legalized abortions
[0:30] the majority in cases from Texas and
[0:33] Georgia said that the decision to end a
[0:35] pregnancy during the first three months
[0:37] belongs to the woman and her doctor not
[0:40] the government thus the anti-abortion
[0:42] laws of 46 States for rendered
[0:45] unconstitutional more on the story from
[0:47] George Herman in two related cases and
[0:49] eight separate opinions the nine
[0:51] justices made abortion largely A Private
[0:53] Matter and ordered the states to make no
[0:55] laws forbidding it except possibly
[0:58] during the final months the court split
[1:00] 7-2 with justices Byron white and
[1:02] William rehnquist descending in effect
[1:04] the court makes abortion subject only to
[1:07] the decision of the pregnant woman's
[1:08] doctor it ruled that states may make no
[1:11] laws restricting a doctor's right to
[1:13] decide his patient needs an abortion and
[1:15] to carry out that abortion during the
[1:17] first three months of a pregnancy after
[1:19] that comparatively safe three-month
[1:21] period abortions may be regulated but
[1:24] not prohibited by state law and for the
[1:26] benefit of the mother's health alone
[1:27] abortion is somewhat more dangerous at
[1:30] this stage and States May insist for
[1:32] example that they be perf