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Brief Of Feminists For Life Of America, Professional Women's Network, Birthright, Inc., Legal Action For Women, As Amici Curiae In Support Of Respondents And Cross Petitioners - Planned Parenthood Of Southeastern Pennsylvania V. Casey, 112 S. Ct. 2791 (1992), David F. Forte, Keith A. Fournier, Christine Smith Torre, Theodore H. Amshoff, Mary Dice Grenen
Brief Of Feminists For Life Of America, Professional Women's Network, Birthright, Inc., Legal Action For Women, As Amici Curiae In Support Of Respondents And Cross Petitioners - Planned Parenthood Of Southeastern Pennsylvania V. Casey, 112 S. Ct. 2791 (1992), David F. Forte, Keith A. Fournier, Christine Smith Torre, Theodore H. Amshoff, Mary Dice Grenen
Law Faculty Briefs and Court Documents
Amici, representing women from all walks of life, are compelled by experience and conviction to advocate strongly that this Court reverse the vulnerable position of women caused by the lack of information given to women contemplating abortion. Amici respectfully urged this Court to affirm the ruling of the Court below, supporting the efforts of the women citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to cause that government to exercise its police power to protect their health and safety by compelling the dissemination of the information necessary to make a fully informed decision.
Montana Fight Over Women's Rights, Carl W. Tobias
Montana Fight Over Women's Rights, Carl W. Tobias
Law Faculty Publications
Report of abortion protests that took place in various locations around Montana.
Shared Interests: Promoting Healthy Births Without Sacrificing Women's Liberty, Dawn E. Johnsen
Shared Interests: Promoting Healthy Births Without Sacrificing Women's Liberty, Dawn E. Johnsen
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Autonomy's Magic Wand: Abortion And Constitutional Interpretation, Anita L. Allen
Autonomy's Magic Wand: Abortion And Constitutional Interpretation, Anita L. Allen
All Faculty Scholarship
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The "Gag Rule" Revisited: Physicians As Abortion Gatekeepers, Maxwell Gregg Bloche
The "Gag Rule" Revisited: Physicians As Abortion Gatekeepers, Maxwell Gregg Bloche
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
To the surprise of many and the dismay of some, the U.S. Supreme Court took it upon itself last term to proclaim a national compromise on the question of abortion. The Court's announced truce, an elaboration on Justice O'Connor's "undue burden" idea, is pragmatic in design but unlikely to prove stable in practice. The three justices who spoke for the Court disparaged Roe with reluctant praise, then upheld its outer shell on the ground that social expectations and the need to sustain the appearance of the rule of law made it impolitic to do otherwise. This awkward doctrinal invention seems …
The Supreme Court, Liberty, And Abortion, George J. Annas
The Supreme Court, Liberty, And Abortion, George J. Annas
Faculty Scholarship
Abortion has aroused intense personal and political passions for almost two decades in the United States, and demeaning sloganeering has long substituted for reasoned discourse. Just as few people have actually read the 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, few people who have expressed their opinion on the Supreme Court's ruling in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, which has been condemned by activists on both sides of the debate about abortion rights, have read it. In one poll, however, more than 70 percent of Americans agreed with the restrictions upheld by the Court as they understood …