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Homologizing Pregnancy And Motherhood: A Consideration Of Abortion, Julia E. Hanigsberg Nov 1995

Homologizing Pregnancy And Motherhood: A Consideration Of Abortion, Julia E. Hanigsberg

Michigan Law Review

In this essay I reconsider abortion in order to bridge what initially seem to be two opposing frameworks: first, the conception of abortion as an issue of women's bodily integrity and liberty, and second, the acknowledgement of the existence and meaning of intrauterine life. The abortion choice is indeed deeply and necessarily tied to women's bodily integrity. I will discuss how taking away women's ability to control their decision not to become mothers can be severely damaging to their very sense of self, for this denial of decisionmaking divides women from their wombs and uses their wombs for a purpose …


Reconsidering Abortion Law: Liberty, Equality, And The Rhetoric Of Planned Parenthood V. Casey , Erin Daly Oct 1995

Reconsidering Abortion Law: Liberty, Equality, And The Rhetoric Of Planned Parenthood V. Casey , Erin Daly

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Countermajoritarian Paradox, Neal Davis May 1995

The Countermajoritarian Paradox, Neal Davis

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade. by David J. Garrow


What If Mary Sue Wanted An Abortion Instead? The Effect Of Davis V. Davis On Abortion Rights, Christina L. Misner Jan 1995

What If Mary Sue Wanted An Abortion Instead? The Effect Of Davis V. Davis On Abortion Rights, Christina L. Misner

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Forrester V. City Of San Diego: Is Pain Compliance An Appropriate Police Practice Under The Fourth Amendment, Michael D. Mitchell Jan 1995

Forrester V. City Of San Diego: Is Pain Compliance An Appropriate Police Practice Under The Fourth Amendment, Michael D. Mitchell

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.


Judging Girls: Decision Making In Parental Consent To Abortion Cases, Suellyn Scarnecchia, Julie Kunce Field Jan 1995

Judging Girls: Decision Making In Parental Consent To Abortion Cases, Suellyn Scarnecchia, Julie Kunce Field

Articles

Judges make determinations on a daily basis that profoundly affect people's lives. On March 28, 1991, the Michigan legislature enacted a statute entitled The Parental Rights Restoration Act (hereinafter "the Michigan Act" or "the Act"). This statute delegated to probate court judges the extraordinary task of deciding whether a minor girl may have an abortion without the consent of a parent. Nothing in law school and little in an average judge's experience provide a meaningful framework for making such a decision. Although many commentators, including the authors, argue that decisions about abortion should be left to the woman regardless of …


Life's Sacred Value—Common Ground Or Battleground, Alexander Morgan Capron May 1994

Life's Sacred Value—Common Ground Or Battleground, Alexander Morgan Capron

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom by Ronald Dworkin


Toward A More Perfect Union: A Federal Cause Of Action For Physician Aid-In-Dying, Todd David Robichaud Jan 1994

Toward A More Perfect Union: A Federal Cause Of Action For Physician Aid-In-Dying, Todd David Robichaud

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Part I of this Note investigates the possible foundations of a constitutional right to physician aid-in-dying triggering section 1983 protection and the opposing state interests in preventing suicide. Part II examines the nature and scope of and obstacles to a request for section 1983 relief. Finally, Part III focuses on the public policy implications associated with recognizing a federal cause of action.


The Constitutional Law Of Abortion In Germany: Should Americans Pay Attention?, Donald P. Kommers Jan 1994

The Constitutional Law Of Abortion In Germany: Should Americans Pay Attention?, Donald P. Kommers

Journal Articles

What I plan to do here is to tell you the story of Germany's legal approach to abortion and offer some tentative conclusions about what we Americans might learn from the German experience. My story centers mainly on the constitutionality of efforts in Germany to remove legal restrictions on abortion. In the United States, the story has a different twist, for there it centers on the constitutionality of efforts to impose legal restrictions on abortion. Both stories are fascinating accounts of constitutional decisionmaking, revealing as much about the values of the two societies as about the role of judicial review …


Through The Looking Glass: What Abortion Teaches Us About American Politics, Neal Devins Jan 1994

Through The Looking Glass: What Abortion Teaches Us About American Politics, Neal Devins

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


The Road Not Taken: State Constitutions As An Alternative Source Of Protection For Reproductive Rights, Kevin F. O'Neill Oct 1993

The Road Not Taken: State Constitutions As An Alternative Source Of Protection For Reproductive Rights, Kevin F. O'Neill

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

Lawyers seeking constitutional protection for reproductive rights have relied almost exclusively on a liberty/privacy theory under the Federal Constitution. In the wake of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, this theory may be seen as providing a floor of minimum protection-preventing states from banning abortion outright. But it is not strong enough to prevent states from enacting restrictions on the availability of abortion. Thus, the battle over reproductive rights may be seen as shifting from one phase ("Can abortion be banned?") to another ("How far can states go in restricting access to abortion'?"). If proponents of reproductive freedom are …


A Question Of Choice, Michele A. Estrin May 1993

A Question Of Choice, Michele A. Estrin

Michigan Law Review

A Review of A Question of Choice by Sarah Weddington


Interstate Preemption: The Right To Travel, The Right To Life, And The Right To Die, Lea Brilmayer Mar 1993

Interstate Preemption: The Right To Travel, The Right To Life, And The Right To Die, Lea Brilmayer

Michigan Law Review

State laws differ, and they differ on issues of tremendous importance to the ways that we conduct our lives. Abortion and the right to die are two issues on which state law intersects with deeply held moral convictions, and on which state laws vary. With so much hanging in the balance, it is not surprising that those who find themselves outvoted or outmaneuvered in local political processes sometimes seek a legal climate more compatible with their beliefs about human decency and dignity. The right to "vote with one's feet" - to travel or move to another state and trade a …


"But Whoever Treasures Freedom…": The Right To Travel And Extraterritorial Abortions, Seth F. Kreimer Mar 1993

"But Whoever Treasures Freedom…": The Right To Travel And Extraterritorial Abortions, Seth F. Kreimer

Michigan Law Review

In a prior article, I addressed the problem of extraterritorial abortions under the assumption that the federal constitutional right of reproductive choice would be repudiated by the Supreme Court on Justice Scalia's theory that such rights lack sufficiently deep roots in the history and traditions surrounding the framing of the Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment. I argued there that a constitutional methodology that relied on traditions and expectations of the Framers would provide a strong basis for concluding that the Constitution imposes severe limits on states' power to project their moralities extraterritorially. If Justice Scalia is serious about a regard …


Conflict Of Constitutions? No Thanks: A Response To Professors Brilmayer And Kreimer, Gerald L. Neuman Mar 1993

Conflict Of Constitutions? No Thanks: A Response To Professors Brilmayer And Kreimer, Gerald L. Neuman

Michigan Law Review

This colloquy was organized around the unpleasant hypothesis that the Supreme Court would overrule Roe v. Wade and that Congress would not fill the resulting void with federal legislation. The abortion debate would then move to the states, where local majorities could enact their own resolutions. If the local majorities were large enough, they could even write their local resolutions into their state constitutions. The contrasting state constitutions that could result might then replicate the comparativists' current juxtaposition between the U.S. Constitution and the constitutions of Germany and Ireland. In some states, prohibition of abortion would be constitutionally required, while …


The Pennsylvania Abortion Case, Janet Benshoof Jan 1993

The Pennsylvania Abortion Case, Janet Benshoof

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Disagreement And Interpretation, Robert F. Nagel Jan 1993

Disagreement And Interpretation, Robert F. Nagel

Publications

No abstract provided.


The Breadth Of Context And The Depth Of Myth: Completing The Feminist Paradigm, Emily Calhoun Jan 1993

The Breadth Of Context And The Depth Of Myth: Completing The Feminist Paradigm, Emily Calhoun

Publications

No abstract provided.


Rust V. Sullivan: Redirecting The Katzenbach V. Morgan Power, Paul Chuey Jan 1993

Rust V. Sullivan: Redirecting The Katzenbach V. Morgan Power, Paul Chuey

Seattle University Law Review

By deferring to the discretion of another branch of the federal government on a question of constitutional interpretation, the Rust Court implicitly resurrects and reshapes the long ignored doctrine of Katzenbach v. Morgan. Despite their different substantive issues, these two cases have a similar effect on the federal judiciary's role in constitutional interpretation. Section I of this Note describes the facts and history surrounding Rust and Morgan. Section II examines the Rust doctrine of judicial deference in the context of Morgan. Section III examines the Rust Court's approach to the First Amendment issues raised by the regulation …


The Supreme Court, Abortion, And The Jurisprudence Of Class, Wendy K. Mariner Nov 1992

The Supreme Court, Abortion, And The Jurisprudence Of Class, Wendy K. Mariner

Faculty Scholarship

The US Supreme Court's decision in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v Casey both protects a woman's liberty to choose to terminate her pregnancy and permits the state to make it more difficult for her to exercise her choice. In their opinion on the case, Justices O'Connor, Kennedy, and Souter eloquently defend constitutional protection of the right to make intimate decisions like continuing or ending a pregnancy. At the same time, they permit the state to try to persuade pregnant women not to have abortions and to make abortion harder to obtain and more costly, as long as the state's …


Brief Of Feminists For Life Of America, Professional Women's Network, Birthright, Inc., Legal Action For Women, As Amici Curiae In Support Of Respondents And Cross Petitioners - Planned Parenthood Of Southeastern Pennsylvania V. Casey, 112 S. Ct. 2791 (1992), David F. Forte, Keith A. Fournier, Christine Smith Torre, Theodore H. Amshoff, Mary Dice Grenen Apr 1992

Brief Of Feminists For Life Of America, Professional Women's Network, Birthright, Inc., Legal Action For Women, As Amici Curiae In Support Of Respondents And Cross Petitioners - Planned Parenthood Of Southeastern Pennsylvania V. Casey, 112 S. Ct. 2791 (1992), David F. Forte, Keith A. Fournier, Christine Smith Torre, Theodore H. Amshoff, Mary Dice Grenen

Law Faculty Briefs and Court Documents

Amici, representing women from all walks of life, are compelled by experience and conviction to advocate strongly that this Court reverse the vulnerable position of women caused by the lack of information given to women contemplating abortion. Amici respectfully urged this Court to affirm the ruling of the Court below, supporting the efforts of the women citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to cause that government to exercise its police power to protect their health and safety by compelling the dissemination of the information necessary to make a fully informed decision.


Is It Possible To Take Both Fetal Life And Women Seriously? Professor Laurence Tribe And His Reviewers, Samuel W. Calhoun, Andrea E. Sexton Mar 1992

Is It Possible To Take Both Fetal Life And Women Seriously? Professor Laurence Tribe And His Reviewers, Samuel W. Calhoun, Andrea E. Sexton

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Right Of Privacy And The New York State Constitution: An Analytical Framework, Edward R. Alexander Jan 1992

The Right Of Privacy And The New York State Constitution: An Analytical Framework, Edward R. Alexander

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Public Health Jan 1992

Public Health

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Montana Fight Over Women's Rights, Carl W. Tobias Jan 1992

Montana Fight Over Women's Rights, Carl W. Tobias

Law Faculty Publications

Report of abortion protests that took place in various locations around Montana.


The "Gag Rule" Revisited: Physicians As Abortion Gatekeepers, Maxwell Gregg Bloche Jan 1992

The "Gag Rule" Revisited: Physicians As Abortion Gatekeepers, Maxwell Gregg Bloche

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

To the surprise of many and the dismay of some, the U.S. Supreme Court took it upon itself last term to proclaim a national compromise on the question of abortion. The Court's announced truce, an elaboration on Justice O'Connor's "undue burden" idea, is pragmatic in design but unlikely to prove stable in practice. The three justices who spoke for the Court disparaged Roe with reluctant praise, then upheld its outer shell on the ground that social expectations and the need to sustain the appearance of the rule of law made it impolitic to do otherwise. This awkward doctrinal invention seems …


Due Process Jan 1992

Due Process

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Operation Rescue: Was The Justice Dept. Right To Intervene In Wichita?, Gary S. Lawson, Celeste Lacy Davis, Eve W. Paul Nov 1991

Operation Rescue: Was The Justice Dept. Right To Intervene In Wichita?, Gary S. Lawson, Celeste Lacy Davis, Eve W. Paul

Faculty Scholarship

Discussion of Operation Rescue attempt to shut down abortion clinic in Wichita, KS in August 1991, and ensuing decision of U.S. District Judge Patrick Kelly, as well as intervention of Justice Department. A debate-style article with "pro" side written by Gary Lawson and "con" side written by C.L. Davis & E.W. Paul.


Abortion And The Law: A Problem Without A Solution?, Robert F. Drinan S.J. May 1991

Abortion And The Law: A Problem Without A Solution?, Robert F. Drinan S.J.

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes by Laurence H. Tribe


Abortion Rights, Eileen Kaufman Jan 1991

Abortion Rights, Eileen Kaufman

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.