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Situating Dobbs, Paula A. Monopoli Jan 2023

Situating Dobbs, Paula A. Monopoli

Faculty Scholarship

The recent decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health has been characterized as an outlier because its effect is to erase a previously recognized constitutional right. This paper situates Dobbs in a broader feminist constitutional history. It asks if this retrenchment is really such a unique turn in American jurisprudence when it comes to protections or “rights” that matter most to women’s lived experience. The paper argues that if one opens the aperture of constitutional history to embrace a more capacious view of rights, those afforded to women have often been eroded or erased by state legislatures, Congress, and courts. …


Richmond Medical Center For Women V. Herring: Prohibiting Partial Birth Abortion But Keeping Constitutional Rights Intact, Kathleen Morris Jan 2010

Richmond Medical Center For Women V. Herring: Prohibiting Partial Birth Abortion But Keeping Constitutional Rights Intact, Kathleen Morris

Maryland Law Review Online

No abstract provided.


Gonzales V. Carhart: No Limits To What Congress May Now “Find”, M. Katherine Burgess Jan 2008

Gonzales V. Carhart: No Limits To What Congress May Now “Find”, M. Katherine Burgess

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Failed Lessons Of History: The Predictable Shortcomings Of The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, Nancy Kubasek, Daniel Tagliarina Jan 2006

Failed Lessons Of History: The Predictable Shortcomings Of The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, Nancy Kubasek, Daniel Tagliarina

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Richmond Medical Center For Women V. Gilmore: Virginia Partial-Birth Abortion Act's Clarity Extinguishes Physician Standing, Lee Ann Lezzer Jan 1999

Richmond Medical Center For Women V. Gilmore: Virginia Partial-Birth Abortion Act's Clarity Extinguishes Physician Standing, Lee Ann Lezzer

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.


On Death And Dworkin: A Critique Of His Theory Of Inviolability, Richard Stith Jan 1997

On Death And Dworkin: A Critique Of His Theory Of Inviolability, Richard Stith

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.