As a lawyer and a Catholic, I've thought about Roe v. Wade for well over 40 years.  What astounds me is that even the Court that approved the majority in Roe would have a problem with saying, as many of the posters here seem want to say, that abortion should NEVER result in the punishment of the aborting mother.  Even Harry Blackmun would be twisting in his grave.

BTW, I never said that I see a moral distinction between the life of a newly conceived child and a late-term fetus.  What I hope I expressed was that I don't expect everyone to perceive that distinction.