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Closing The Circle Of Constitutional Review From Griswold V. Connecticut To Roe V. Wade: An Outline Of A Decision Merely Overruling Roe, William W. Van Alstyne
Closing The Circle Of Constitutional Review From Griswold V. Connecticut To Roe V. Wade: An Outline Of A Decision Merely Overruling Roe, William W. Van Alstyne
Faculty Publications
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Issues Raised By The Abortion Rescue Movement, Charles E. Rice
Issues Raised By The Abortion Rescue Movement, Charles E. Rice
Journal Articles
The civil rights protests of the fifties and sixties taught the nation about the relation of the enacted law to the higher law of justice. Though less favorably publicized, the abortion rescue movement provides another such teaching moment today. As with the civil rights protests, the abortion rescue movement involves ordinary people putting their bodies on the line-and in jail-to vindicate their conception of justice. The rescue movement raises issues that transcend the question of whether one approves or disapproves of abortion. This paper examines what society might learn from the Operation Rescue movement about the weaknesses of our law.
Forgetting The Constitution, Robert F. Nagel
Canada's Roe: The Canadian Abortion Decision And Its Implications For American Constitutional Law And Theory, Daniel O. Conkle
Canada's Roe: The Canadian Abortion Decision And Its Implications For American Constitutional Law And Theory, Daniel O. Conkle
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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From Driving To Drugs: Governmental Regulation Of Pregnant Women's Lives After Webster, Dawn E. Johnsen
From Driving To Drugs: Governmental Regulation Of Pregnant Women's Lives After Webster, Dawn E. Johnsen
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Book Review. Abortion And Divorce In Western Law By Mary Ann Glendon, Lauren K. Robel
Book Review. Abortion And Divorce In Western Law By Mary Ann Glendon, Lauren K. Robel
Articles by Maurer Faculty
In this book, Professor Mary Ann Glendon contends that the American commitment to individualism and rights has deprived our law of compassion in the areas of abortion and divorce. She argues that while western European countries tell their citizens that their decisions about family are important to the larger society, American law takes extreme and damaging positions that isolate people at times when the community has an interest in their acts. Much of the book is a gentle and persuasive reminder that America lacks any semblance of a national family policy, an omission that looks heartless in comparison to Europe. …
Will Roe V. Wade Survive The Rehnquist Court?, Dawn E. Johnsen, Marcy Wilder
Will Roe V. Wade Survive The Rehnquist Court?, Dawn E. Johnsen, Marcy Wilder
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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The Politics Of Transplantation Of Human Fetal Tissue, George J. Annas
The Politics Of Transplantation Of Human Fetal Tissue, George J. Annas
Faculty Scholarship
Research involving human fetal tissue has been the subject of intense political debate in this country for almost two decades, and the use of fetal tissues in transplantation continues this controversy in another forum. Since Roe v. Wade ,1 the landmark decision on abortion by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973, the federal government has focused public attention on fetal research by creating panels of experts. "3 This conclusion was accepted on a vote of 15 to 2, and included recommendations that the decision to abort be kept independent of the decision to retrieve and use fetal tissue, that recipients …
Webster And Women's Equality, Dawn E. Johnsen, Marcy J. Wilder
Webster And Women's Equality, Dawn E. Johnsen, Marcy J. Wilder
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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