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Medical Jurisprudence

Cleveland State University

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Unborn rights

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Life, Heartbeat, Birth: A Medical Basis For Reform, David F. Forte Jan 2013

Life, Heartbeat, Birth: A Medical Basis For Reform, David F. Forte

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This Article does not revisit the moral, legal, and constitutional critiques of the Court’s position [in Roe v. Wade]. The voluminous commentaries on the flaws in the Court’s opinions speak for themselves. Rather, this Article seeks to ground an expansion of the protection available to the unborn on the implicit principles underlying current Supreme Court doctrine, refined and modified by recent medical research on nature of pregnancy and human pre-natal development. It will argue that the State’s compelling interest in the protection of what the Court has called “potential life” ripens at an earlier point in time than what the …


Reply To Critics Of The Heartbeat Bill, David Forte May 2012

Reply To Critics Of The Heartbeat Bill, David Forte

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Forte's reply to critics of HB 125 – The Heartbeat Bill (2011-2012) appears on the Catholic Conference of Ohio website.