Top court doesn’t block inmate’s abortion

THE US Supreme Court, in an abortion case of relatively narrow scope, cleared the way yesterday for a Missouri prison inmate to terminate her pregnancy.

The high court made no sweeping rendering on the constitutionality of the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling ensuring a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.

Rather, it let stand a lower court ruling that Missouri Department of Corrections must provide transportation for the woman to have the procedure done.