at 55; In re Vince, 2 N.J. 443, 450, 67 A.2d 141, 144 (1949). -- From Justice Harry A. Blackmun's majority opinion "At the heart of the controversy in these cases are those recurring pregnancies that pose no danger whatsoever to … 349, 354-360 (1971). See Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary 478-479, 547 (24th ed.1965). In Doe v. Bolton, post, p. 179, procedural requirements contained in one of the modern abortion statutes are considered. News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. Contra, Mills v. Commonwealth, 13 Pa. 631, 633 (1850); State v. Slagle, 83 N.C. 630, 632 (1880). 741 (ND Ohio 1970); Doe v. Rampton (Utah 1971), appeal docketed, No. Appellant's arguments that Texas either has no valid interest at all in regulating the abortion decision, or no interest strong enough to support any limitation upon the woman's sole determination, are unpersuasive. She carries an embryo and, later, a fetus, if one accepts the medical definitions of the developing young in the human uterus. There is some scholarly support for this view of original purpose. at 38-39, recommending, among other things, that it. 3, c. 58, § 1, referred to in the text, infra at 136, states that "no adequate means have been hitherto provided for the prevention and punishment of such offenses.". 71-1200. 273 (1968); Note, Criminal Law — Abortion — The "Morning-After Pill" and Other Pre-Implantation Birth-Control Methods and the Law, 46 Ore.L.Rev. Blackmun changed the opinion somewhat to accommodate Marshall's concerns, saying that after approximately the first trimester, the states could regulate abortion to protect the health of the mother. In order to escape the rule articulated in the cases cited in the next paragraph of this opinion that, absent harassment and bad faith, a defendant in a pending state criminal case cannot affirmatively challenge in federal court the statutes under which the State is prosecuting him, Dr. Hallford seeks to distinguish his status as a present state defendant from his status as a "potential future defendant," and to assert only the latter for standing purposes here. These representations were also repeated in the affidavit he executed and filed in support of his motion for summary judgment. Cheaney v. State, ___ Ind. One's philosophy, one's experiences, one's exposure to the raw edges of human existence, one's religious training, one's attitudes toward life and family and their values, and the moral standards one establishes and seeks to observe, are all likely to influence and to color one's thinking and conclusions about abortion. We set forth the Act in full in the margin. The author examines the two principal precedents cited marginally by Coke, both contrary to his dictum, and traces the treatment of these and other cases by earlier commentators. Harry Blackmun Biography, Life, Interesting Facts. § 11.15.060 (1970); Haw.Rev.Stat. 44 ^ . 18, §§ 4718, 4719 (1963). He spoke exclusively about his 1973 majority opinion, Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion. The court held that Roe and members of her class, and Dr. Hallford, had standing to sue and presented justiciable controversies, but that the Does had failed to allege facts sufficient to state a present controversy, and did not have standing. 58 ^ . He spoke exclusively about his 1973 majority opinion, Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion. The principal thrust of appellant's attack on the Texasstatutes is that they improperly invade a right, said to be possessed by thepregnant woman, to choose to terminate her pregnancy. § 37: 1285(6) (1964) (loss of medical license) (but see § 14:87 (Supp. 337, 341 (1915). This is so because of the now-established medical fact, referred to above at 149, that, until the end of the first trimester mortality in abortion may be less than mortality in normal childbirth. 489 (1971); if the woman is an unmarried minor, written permission from the parents is required. She sought a declaratory judgment that the Texas criminal abortion statutes were unconstitutional on their face, and an injunction restraining the defendant from enforcing the statutes. (1908–): … [36] In [p140] the past several years, however, a trend toward liberalization of abortion statutes has resulted in adoption, by about one-third of the States, of less stringent laws, most of them patterned after the ALI Model Penal Code, § 230.3, [37] set forth as Appendix B to the opinion in Doe v. Bolton, post, p. 205. See Augustine, De Origine Animae 4.4 (Pub.Law 44.527). [54] [p158]. Courts sustaining state laws have held that the State's determinations to protect health or prenatal life are dominant and constitutionally justifiable. Sally Blackmun, Supreme Court Associate Justice Harry Blackmun’s daughter, talks about why he found in favor of Roe V Wade: “Sally Blackmun, an abortion-rights activist and daughter of Justice Harry Blackmun, who authored the Roe V Wade opinion, recounts how personal considerations entered into her father’s thinking on the matter. On June 25, 1970, the House of Delegates adopted preambles and most of the resolutions proposed by the reference committee. In a frequently cited [p135] passage, Coke took the position that abortion of a woman "quick with childe" is "a great misprision, and no murder." 2. Moreover, the risk to the woman increases as her pregnancy continues. Blackmun graduated in mathematics from Harvard University in 1929 and received his law degree from that institution in 1932. See Smith v. State, 33 Me. 4, c. 31, § 13. § 200.220 (1967); N.H.Rev.Stat.Ann. 1196 is unconstitutional means, of course, that the Texas abortion statutes, as a unit, must fall. It said women had a right to privacy, which meant it was up to them to decide whether to continue their pregnancy. 224 (Conn.1972), appeal docketed, No. By the end of the 1950's, a large majority of the jurisdictions banned abortion, however and whenever performed, unless done to save or preserve the life of the mother. [33] It was not until after the War Between the States that legislation began generally to replace the common law. It might have been preferable if the defendant, pursuant to our Rule 20, had presented to us a petition for certiorari before judgment in the Court of Appeals with respect to the granting of the plaintiffs' prayer for declaratory relief. 1196 of the Texas Penal Code, in restricting legal abortions to those "procured or attempted by medical advice for the purpose of saving the life of the mother," sweeps too broadly. 1971); Calif.Health & Safety Code §§ 25950-25955.5 (Supp. In early May 1971, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Roe v.Wade from Texas and Doe v. [51] On the other hand, the appellee conceded on reargument [52] that no case could be cited that holds that a fetus is a person within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. Our law should not be that rigid. This Decretal and the Decretals that followed were recognized as the definitive body of canon law until the new Code of 1917. 71-5666; Cheaney v. State, ___ Ind. Justice Harry Blackmun’s position in Roe v. Wade. §§ 435.405 to 435.495 (1971); S.C.Code Ann. It therefore dismissed the Does' complaint, declared the abortion statutes void, and dismissed the application for injunctive relief. When Texas urges that a fetus is entitled to Fourteenth Amendment protection as a person, it faces a dilemma. Cf. On June 20, 1995 Justice Blackmun. 402 U.S. 941 (1971) [p123]. A. Jane Roe. "Person" is used in other places in the Constitution: in the listing of qualifications for Representatives and Senators, Art. E. Coke, Institutes III *50; 1 W. Hawkins, Pleas of the Crown, c. 31, § 16 (4th ed. In view of our ruling as to Roe's standing in her case, the issue of the Does' standing in their case has little significance. 1971); Va.Code Ann. 23 ^ . 1971); N.Y.Penal Code § 125.05, subd. Justice Blackmun was well aware that despite an active, 62-year career as a lawyer and judge, his name would be forever linked to the issue of … Id. The American law. Measured against these standards, Art. The statute makes no distinction between abortions performed early in pregnancy and those performed later, and it limits to a single reason, "saving" the mother's life, the legal justification for the procedure. [39]. In addition, population growth, pollution, poverty, and racial overtones tend to complicate and not to simplify the problem. Conn.Pub. Thus, it was recommended that abortions in the second trimester and early abortions in the presence of existing medical complications be performed in hospitals as inpatient procedures. In 1989 Blackmun agreed with the majority opinion by Justice William J. Brennan Jr. in the flag-burning case Texas v. Johnson. . [2] [p119], Texas first enacted a criminal abortion statute in 1854. United States v. Vuitch, 402 U.S. 62, 69-71 (1971). Neither in Texas nor in any other State are all abortions prohibited. 31 ^ . If the State is interested in protecting fetal life after viability, it may go so far as to proscribe abortion [p164] during that period, except when it is necessary to preserve the life or health of the mother. The plaintiffs Roe and Doe and the intervenor Hallford, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. In October, 1970, the Executive Board of the APHA adopted Standards for Abortion Services. The Does therefore are not appropriate plaintiffs in this litigation. 411-412; Noonan 20-26; Quay 426-430; see also J. Noonan, Contraception: A History of Its Treatment by the Catholic Theologians and Canonists 18-29 (1965). We seek earnestly to do this, and, because we do, we [p117] have inquired into, and in this opinion place some emphasis upon, medical and medical-legal history and what that history reveals about man's attitudes toward the abortion procedure over the centuries. He is the author of the Court’s opinion in Roe v. Wade bars the restrictions on abortion by many state … 8. Cf. Mass.Gen.Laws Ann., c. 272, § 19 (1970); N.J.Stat.Ann. He grew up in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. Even after 1900, and perhaps until as late as the development of antibiotics in the 1940's, standard modern techniques such as dilation and curettage were not nearly so safe as they are today. 2), 49 Geo.L.J. [3] [p120]. 58 A.B.A.J. BLACKMUN, HARRY A. We need not now decide whether provisions of this kind are constitutional. 6. 70-42; Corkey v. Edwards, 322 F.Supp. He entered Roe's litigation as a plaintiff-intervenor, alleging in his complaint that he: In his application for leave to intervene, the doctor made like representations as to the abortion charges pending in the state court. § 14-45.1 (Supp. In his instructions to the jury, Judge Macnaghten referred to the 1929 Act, and observed that that Act related to "the case where a child is killed by a willful act at the time when it is being delivered in the ordinary course of nature." 3 ^ . Argued December 13, 1971. The Court has recognized that different considerations enter into a federal court's decision as to declaratory relief, on the one hand, and injunctive relief, on the other. Nevertheless, we briefly note the Does' posture. 21, § 861 (1972-1973 Supp. § 22-17-1 (1967); Tenn.Code Ann. The AMA Judicial Council rendered a complementary opinion. 1149, 1152 (April 1961). The defendant District Attorney has purported to cross-appeal, pursuant to the same statute, from the court's grant of declaratory relief to Roe and Hallford. § 28-405 (1964); Nev.Rev.Stat. Gradually, in the middle and late 19th century, the quickening distinction disappeared from the statutory law of most States and the degree of the offense and the penalties were increased. [38] Proceedings [p144] of the AMA House of Delegates 220 (June 1970). He described conditions of patients who came to him seeking abortions, and he claimed that for many cases he, as a physician, was unable to determine whether they fell within or outside the exception recognized by Article 1196. The law was blocked by the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals. And if pregnancy ensues, they "would want to terminate" it by an abortion. 7.3.583b; Gen.Anim. the Wisconsin abortion statute, defining "unborn child" to mean "a human being from the time of conception until it is born alive," Wis.Stat. And what effect did the pendency of criminal abortion charges against Dr. Hallford in state court have upon the propriety of the federal court's granting relief to him as a plaintiff-intervenor? Although a complete overturn of Roe v. Wade is unlikely, abortion regulation in the United States is … 1217 (ED La.1970), appeal docketed, No. § 2901.16 (1953); Okla.Stat.Ann., Tit. Ala.Code, Tit. Few other Supreme Court opinions have so dominated political culture for so long, yet its 20 ^ . He then construed the phrase "preserving the life of the mother" broadly, that is, "in a reasonable sense," to include a serious and permanent threat to the mother's health, and instructed the jury to acquit Dr. Bourne if it found he had acted in a good faith belief that the abortion was necessary for this purpose. 293 (ED Wis.1970), appeal dismissed, 400 U.S. 1 (1970); People v. Belous, 71 Cal.2d 954, 458 P.2d 194 (1969), cert. 587 (ED Ky.1972), appeal docketed, No. Galen, in three treatises related to embryology, accepted the thinking of Aristotle and his followers. The leave application, however, is not the complaint. (partially) Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction. Although [p134] Christian theology and the canon law came to fix the point of animation at 40 days for a male and 80 days for a female, a view that persisted until the 19th century, there was otherwise little agreement about the precise time of formation or animation. § 6, and did not reappear in the Offenses Against the Person Act of 1861, 24 & 25 Vict., c. 100, § 59, that formed the core of English anti-abortion law until the liberalizing reforms of 1967. Harry Blackmun, Roe v. Wade became the landmark case that stood for women’s constitutional rights to privacy.However Any one or more of these several possibilities may not take place, and all may not combine. Although the results are divided, most of these courts have agreed that the right of privacy, however based, is broad enough to cover the abortion decision; that the right, nonetheless, is not absolute, and is subject to some limitations; and that, at some point, the state interests as to protection of health, medical standards, and prenatal life, become dominant. He joined a Minneapolis, Minnesota, law firm in … [28] That their reliance on Coke on this aspect of the law was uncritical and, apparently in all the reported cases, dictum (due probably to the paucity of common law prosecutions for post-quickening abortion), makes it now appear doubtful that abortion was ever firmly established as a common law crime even with respect to the destruction of a quick fetus. As noted above, we do not agree fully with either formulation. 3; in the Apportionment Clause, Art. [42] The appellants and amici contend, moreover, that this is not a proper state purpose, at all and suggest that, if it were, the Texas statutes are overbroad in protecting it, since the law fails to distinguish between married and unwed mothers. Southern Pacific Terminal Co. v. ICC, 219 U.S. 498, 515 (1911). Abele v. Markle, 342 F.Supp. of Registration, 356 Mass. [64] In a recent development, generally opposed by the commentators, some States permit the parents of a stillborn child to maintain an action for wrongful death because of prenatal injuries. There have been many challenges to Roe v. Wade since it was established. 1971); Ore.Rev.Stat. The early statutes are discussed in Quay 435-438. The Oath "became the nucleus of all medical ethics," and "was applauded as the embodiment of truth." The exception of Art. 1195 is significantly less than the maximum penalty for murder prescribed by Art. A. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals disposed of that suggestion peremptorily, saying only. Reasons for Majority Opinion. The case was heard to decide if Texas' ban on abortions, which were completely outlawed except when a woman's life was in danger, was constitutional. Ancient religion did not bar abortion. What then of the famous Oath that has stood so long as the ethical guide of the medical profession and that bears the name of the great Greek (460(?)-377(?) 1; in the Emolument Clause, Art. Blackmun was one of three justices who dissented in the Court’s decision in New York Times Co. v. United States (1971), which used the strong presumption against prior restraint to allow publication of the Pentagon Papers. [p148]. Harry A. Blackmun, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1970 to 1994. 48, 55 (1851); Evans v. People, 49 N.Y. 86, 88 (1872); Lamb v. State, 67 Md. Appellee argues that the State's determination to recognize and protect prenatal life from and after conception constitutes a compelling state interest. United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950); Golden v. Zwickler, supra; SEC v. Medical Committee for Human Rights, 404 U.S. 403 (1972). 9, 1959). 211 (1967); G. Taylor, The Biological Time Bomb 32 (1968); A. Rosenfeld, The Second Genesis 138-139 (1969); Smith, Through a Test Tube Darkly: Artificial Insemination and the Law, 67 Mich.L.Rev. Commonwealth v. Bangs, 9 Mass. 1205 of the Penal Code, are intended to protect a person "in existence by actual birth," and thereby implicitly recognize other human life that is not "in existence by actual birth"; that the definition of human life is for the legislature and not the courts; that Art. An abortion in an extramural facility, however, is an acceptable alternative "provided arrangements exist in advance to admit patients promptly if unforeseen complications develop." This was the first time since Roe that the Court had upheld an abortion ban. (a) For the stage prior to approximately the end of the first trimester, the abortion decision and its effectuation must be left to the medical judgment of the pregnant woman's attending physician. The court, of course, was correct in refusing to grant injunctive relief to the doctor. 314 F.Supp. Source for information on Blackmun, Harry A. Their pleadings present them as a childless married couple, the woman not being pregnant, who have no desire to have children at this time because of their having received medical advice that Mrs. Doe should avoid pregnancy, and for "other highly personal reasons." The ruling has been threatened by near-total bans on abortion that have been passed in Alabama, Missouri and Mississippi. In minority on 7-2 vote on Roe v. Wade Roe v. Wade, the abortion rights decision that still defines judicial liberalism, passed by a 7-2 vote in 1973, with three of the four Nixon nominees (Burger, Lewis F. Powell, and Harry A. Blackmun) in the majority. But when, as here, pregnancy is a significant fact in the litigation, the normal 266-day human gestation period is so short that the pregnancy will come to term before the usual appellate process is complete. See C. Haagensen & W. Lloyd, A Hundred Years of Medicine 19 (1943). He is best known for writing the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade (1973) that overturned most state abortion laws. 1955). When the case of Roe v.Wade, which started at the U.S. District Court in Texas, reached the "end of the line," Justice Blackmun wrote the majority (7-2) opinion. 177, 179, classifying the abortion statutes and listing 25 States as permitting abortion only if necessary to save or preserve the mother's life. In his complaint, he alleged that he had been arrested previously for violations of the Texas abortion statutes, and [p121] that two such prosecutions were pending against him. In the last three months, states can prohibit abortions in the interest of the fetus, provided the pregnancy will not bring harm to the pregnant woman. at 1225, we fail to perceive the essentials of a class suit in the Hallford complaint. 251, 252, 112 N.W. at 398. 5; in the Extradition provisions, Art. By 1840, when Texas had received the common law, [32] only eight American States [p139] had statutes dealing with abortion. § 22-201 (1967). 48 ^ . [44] Consequently, any interest of the State in protecting the woman from an inherently hazardous procedure, except when it would be equally dangerous for her to forgo it, has largely disappeared. Id. 661 (1919); Thompson v. State (Ct.Crim.App. It is with these interests, and the eight to be attached to them, that this case is concerned. This Texas federal appeal and its Georgia companion, Doe v. Bolton, post, p. 179, present constitutional challenges to state criminal abortion legislation. The Does' claim falls far short of those resolved otherwise in the cases that the Does urge upon us, namely, Investment Co. Institute v. Camp, 401 U.S. 617 (1971); Data Processing Service v. Camp, 397 U.S. 150 (1970); [p129] and Epperson v. Arkansas, 393 U.S. 97 (1968). We are aware that some statutes recognize the father under certain circumstances. The [p154] Court's decisions recognizing a right of privacy also acknowledge that some state regulation in areas protected by that right is appropriate. 4. 13, § 101 (1958); W.Va.Code Ann. Although he stated that he has been arrested in the past for violating the State's abortion laws, he makes no allegation of any substantial and immediate threat to any federally protected right that cannot be asserted in his defense against the state prosecutions. II, § 1, cl. "States may regulate abortion procedures before viability so long as they do not impose an undue burden on the woman's right, but they may not ban abortions," the appeals court wrote, concluding that "the law at issue is a ban. Upon the filing of affidavits, motions were made for dismissal and for summary judgment. In a majority opinion written by Justice Harry Blackmun, the Court declared that a woman’s right to an abortion was implicit in the right to privacy protected by … The third reason is the State's interest — some phrase it in terms of duty — in protecting prenatal life. Only Rehnquist, joined by Byron R. White, appointed by John F. Kennedy, dissented. 127 (1968); Note, Artificial Insemination and the Law, 1968 U.Ill.L.F. 47 ^ . 72-56. A. Castiglioni, A History of Medicine 84 (2d ed.1947), E. Krumbhaar, translator and editor (hereinafter Castiglioni). 53 ^ . Except for periodic condemnation of the criminal abortionist, no further formal AMA action took place until 1967. [7] He is remitted to his defenses in the state criminal proceedings against him. Later, Augustine on abortion was incorporated by Gratian into the Decretum, published about 1140. In that year, the Committee on Human Reproduction urged the adoption of a stated policy of opposition to induced abortion except when there is "documented medical evidence" of a threat to the health or life of the mother, or that the child "may be born with incapacitating physical deformity or mental deficiency," or that a pregnancy "resulting from legally established statutory or forcible rape or incest may constitute a threat to the mental or physical health of the [p143] patient," two other physicians "chosen because of their recognized professional competence have examined the patient and have concurred in writing," and the procedure "is performed in a hospital accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals." A second reason is concerned with abortion as a medical procedure. [1] These make it a crime to "procure an abortion," as therein [p118] defined, or to attempt one, except with respect to "an abortion procured or attempted by medical advice for the purpose of saving the life of the mother." 72-730. I, § 9, cl. Yet, in Roe v. Wade, Blackmun elevated the mother’s privacy rights to authorize the dependent child’s mandatory eviction while in her or his first home in the mother’s womb. With respect to the State's important and legitimate interest in potential life, the "compelling" point is at viability. At least with respect to the early stage of pregnancy, and very possibly without such a limitation, the opportunity [p141] to make this choice was present in this country well into the 19th century. 59 ^ . Appellant and appellee both contest that holding. (Judge) Supreme Court of the United States (Author) Our decisions in Mitchell v. Donovan, 398 U.S. 427 (1970), and Gunn v. University Committee, 399 U.S. 383 (1970), are to the effect that § 1253 does not authorize an appeal to this Court from the grant or denial of declaratory relief alone. §§ 76-2-1, 76-2-2 (1953); Vt.Stat.Ann., Tit. [18] But with the end of antiquity, a decided change took place. de Nat.Puer., No. See Truax v. Raich, 239 U.S. 33 (1915). 380-382; Ga.Code §§ 26-1201 to 26-1203 (1972); Kan.Stat.Ann. 1972); Florida Law of Apr. The number of abortions performed each year has been falling. The same court recently has held again that the State's abortion statutes are not unconstitutionally vague or overbroad. Thus, the State retains a definite interest in protecting the woman's own health and safety when an abortion is proposed at a late stage of pregnancy. Abele v. Markle, 452 F.2d 1121, 1125 (CA2 1971); Crossen v. Breckenridge, 446 F.2d 833, 838-839 (CA6 1971); Poe v. Menghini, 339 F.Supp. In Thompson, n. 2, the court observed that any issue as to the burden of proof under the exemption of Art. This means, on the other hand, that, for the period of pregnancy prior to this "compelling" point, the attending physician, in consultation with his patient, is free to determine, without regulation by the State, that, in his medical judgment, the patient's pregnancy should be terminated. ", The two actions were consolidated and heard together by a duly convened three-judge district court. These were five in number: It was said that "a well equipped hospital" offers more protection. 1972); N.M.Stat.Ann. This conclusion, however, does not of itself fully answer the contentions raised by Texas, and we pass on to other considerations. Up to those points, the abortion decision in all its aspects is inherently, and primarily, a medical decision, and basic responsibility for it must rest with the physician. Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905) (vaccination); Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927) (sterilization). [13] The Oath varies somewhat according to the particular translation, but in any translation the content is clear: Although the Oath is not mentioned in any of the principal briefs in this case or in Doe v. Bolton, post, p. 179, it represents the apex of the development of strict ethical concepts in medicine, and its influence endures to this day. In 2007, the Supreme Court upheld a federal ban on late-term abortions, so-called partial-birth abortions. This session was recorded without an interviewer. 21 ^ . See also Truax v. Raich, 239 U.S. 33 (1915). ); Pa.Stat.Ann., Tit. The providing of medical information by physicians to state legislatures in their consideration of legislation regarding therapeutic abortion was "to be considered consistent with the principles of ethics of the American Medical Association." Retired Justice Harry A. Blackmun, author of the historic Roe v. Wade decision that made abortion legal and radically transformed American society and politics, died yesterday at … The abortion clause of the Oath, therefore, "echoes Pythagorean doctrines," [p132] and "[i]n no other stratum of Greek opinion were such views held or proposed in the same spirit of uncompromising austerity." 221, 229, 178 S.W. Other sources are discussed in Lader 17-23. At its meeting in February, 1972, the ABA House of Delegates approved, with 17 opposing votes, the Uniform Abortion Act that had been drafted and approved the preceding August by the Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. A short discussion of the modern law on this issue is contained in the Comment to the ALI's Model Penal Code § 207.11, at 158 and nn. 57 ^ . The appellee and certain amici argue that the fetus is a "person" within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. & P.S. Act of Jan. 20, 1840, § 1, set forth in 2 H. Gammel, Laws of Texas 177-178 (1898); see Grigsby v. 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