**Myth**: Abortion is only legal in the first three months of pregnancy. **Fact**: Abortion is legal throughout all 9 months of pregnancy. In *Roe v. Wade*, the Supreme Court ruled that abortion may not be restricted at all in the first trimester. According to Roe, in the second trimester abortion may be regulated only for the mother’s "health". Roe’s companion case, *Doe v. Bolton*, defined maternal "health" as: "all factors - physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman’s age--relevant to the well-being of the patient." Thus, abortion is legal and cannot be prohibited by law in any month of pregnancy--even up to the day before a woman would give birth--if any of these reasons are invoked. Adapted from *Roe Reality Check*, published by the USCCB.