This rhetoric is designed to conceal the fact that Roe v. Wade legalized abortion on demand for all nine months of pregnancy.   For over 30 years, the abortion lobby, with the help of their media lapdogs, have been able to carry out this deception because of a scam perpetrated by the Supreme Court in 1973. 

Harry Blackmun – the Supreme Court Justice who wrote Roe v. Wade – clearly understood that the country would not support unlimited abortion on demand.  However, his writings prove that this was the political goal that he and others on the Court sought.  So they issued Roe v. Wade which included the following language: “State regulation protective of fetal life after viability has both logical and biological justifications: and if a state is interested in protecting fetal life after viability, it may proscribe abortion during that period except when it is necessary to preserve the life or health of the mother.”   
Obviously, this appears to allow states to prohibit abortion after viability.  The problem is, while it is normal for legal decisions such as this to include definitions of the important words and terms used in the ruling, in Roe the Court chose to omit any definition of the word “health.”  However, on the same day they issued Roe, they also issued what’s known as a “companion decision.”  That’s where two or more decisions on a common subject are released which must be read together to get the full effect of the ruling.  The companion to Roe is called Doe v. Bolton and it contains this definition for health: “...in the light of all factors-physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman’s age-relevant to the well being of the patient.  All these factors may relate to health.”

So, the court creates the illusion of a compromise by ruling in Roe that states can prohibit abortion under certain circumstances unless the pregnancy threatens the woman’s life or health.  At that same moment, they bury within Doe a definition of health so broad that it literally covers any circumstance in which a woman might be pregnant, thus removing all elements of the phony compromise. 

The Supreme Court was counting on the probability that the decision which legalized abortion would get all the attention, while its companion would be ignored – except by lawyers, judges and legislators.  The evidence of how well this scam worked is that, today, most people know about Roe v. Wade but few have ever even heard of Doe v. Bolton.

The point is, when a pro-choice politician or activist says they support the compromise reached in Roe, they are lying.  They are fully aware that no such compromise exists.  They also know that legislation restricting abortion which includes an exception for the “health” of the woman is meaningless.  In fact, that is precisely why they always demand a health exception in any abortion-related legislation.