Connecticut v. Menillo

How courts have described this case

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• upholding a statute requiring that only licensed physicians perform abortions, including first trimester abortions
• criminal statute proscribing unlicensed physician from performing an abortion does not impinge on abortion decision
• Connecticut criminal statute proscribing unlicensed physician from performing abortions does not impinge on abortion decision
• state may require that abortions be performed only by licensed physicians, even in the first trimester of pregnancy
• no conflict between statute prohibiting abortions and Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 93 S.Ct. 705, 35 L.Ed.2d 147 (1973), as applied to attempted abortion by untrained and unlicensed practitioner
• no constitutional right to an abortion by a nonphysician

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).