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Canada's Roe: The Canadian Abortion Decision And Its Implications For American Constitutional Law And Theory, Daniel O. Conkle Jan 1989

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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Abortion And Divorce In Western Law, Sara J. Vance May 1988

Abortion And Divorce In Western Law, Sara J. Vance

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Abortion and Divorce in Western Law by Mary A. Glendon


New Constitutional And Penal Theory In Spanish Abortion Law, Richard Stith Jan 1987

New Constitutional And Penal Theory In Spanish Abortion Law, Richard Stith

Law Faculty Publications

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Liberty And Community In Constitutional Law: The Abortion Cases In Comparative Perspective, Donald P. Kommers Jan 1985

Liberty And Community In Constitutional Law: The Abortion Cases In Comparative Perspective, Donald P. Kommers

Journal Articles

In the mid-1970s the high courts of several western democracies handed down constitutional decisions concerning the legal regulation of abortion. All of the courts sustained their abortion statutes except the United States and West Germany, which moved in opposite directions. The US Supreme Court voided the conservative abortion statutes of various states while West Germany's highest court nullified an abortion statute that took a liberal stance on abortion. The extended opinions of the American and German courts and their contrasting grounds for decision make them fitting candidates for a comparative analysis of abortion jurisprudence. The abortion issue illustrates the tension …