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Webster V. Reproductive Health Services: A Path To Constitutional Equilibrium, Mark E. Chopko
Webster V. Reproductive Health Services: A Path To Constitutional Equilibrium, Mark E. Chopko
Campbell Law Review
This Article is intended as part of a symposium and a debate on substantive due process and the decision in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services. This writer, although here a commentator on the law, does have an opinion on the ultimate question: Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided.
Webster V. Reproductive Health Services: Do Legislative Declarations That Life Begins At Conception Violate The Establishment Clause?, Dr. Robert L. Maddox, Blaine Bortnick
Webster V. Reproductive Health Services: Do Legislative Declarations That Life Begins At Conception Violate The Establishment Clause?, Dr. Robert L. Maddox, Blaine Bortnick
Campbell Law Review
This article contends that the Missouri legislative statement is a theologically derived finding that personhood begins at the moment of conception. Such an inherently theological and controversial determination violates a core purpose of the establishment clause of the first amendment, the absolute prohibition against government preference of one religious sect or denomination over another and the placing of the state's imprimatur on a particular religious dogma. What follows is a synopsis of the religious debate over whether human life begins at conception. Next is a discussion of the statute in light of this debate in the context of establishment clause …