The Court later abandoned Roe’s trimester framework and upheld regulations it had voided.

Evidence

In Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989) and in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992), the justices discarded the trimester framework used by Justice Blackmun in Roe. They also upheld a number of state regulations that limited the availability of abortion, including some that they had struck down in earlier cases (e. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3144

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the doctrine of stare decisis and to how a Court majority can narrow precedent without formally overruling it.
• DEFINE: Names the trimester framework as the specific doctrinal device Roe introduced and later majorities discarded.