Legality of Cannabis by U.S. Jurisdiction

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In this connection the Iowa Supreme Court said, "It [is] not essential that the peril to life should be imminent. It [is] enough that it be potentially present, even though its full development might be delayed to a greater or less extent. Nor [is] it essential that the doctor should believe that the death of the patient would be otherwise certain in order to justify him in affording …

- in Gleitman v. Cosgrove, 1967 and 14 similar citations

Two other jurisdictions have also rejected an interpretation of "necessary to preserve" which would require certainty or immediacy of death

- in People v. Belous, 1969 and 7 similar citations

The authorities are to the effect that when it is shown that the woman was healthy and in a normal condition... the evidence is sufficient to raise the inference and to find the fact that the production of the miscarriage was not necessary to save the woman's life....

- in To Be or Not to Be: The Constitutional Question of the California Abortion Law and 2 similar citations

—it was held that a dead fetus was presumptively a danger to the mother's life; therefore, the defendant was acquitted under the therapeutic exception.

- in Southern California Law Review and 2 similar citations

Immediacy of death is relevant to the endangerment of life-in spite of the contrary opinion of some courts.

- in The ethics in the situation and one similar citation