Roe v. Wade

Roe V. Wade - case decided in 1973 by the U.S. Supreme Court. Along with Doe v. Bolton, this decision legalized abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy. The decision, written by Justice Harry Blackmun and based on the residual right of privacy, struck down dozens of state antiabortion statutes. The decision was based on two cases, that of an unmarried woman from Texas, where abortion was Read More...

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Roe v. Wade

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Abortion and American Politics (Chap. 1 "Roe v. Wade, the Burger Court and American Politics")
by Barbara Hinkson Craig, David M. O'Brien. 382 pgs.

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Contents

Illustrations

Tables, Figures, Boxes

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Roe v. Wade, the Burger Court, and American Politics

Notes

Chapter 2: Interest Groups Battle Over Roe

Notes

Chapter 3: The States as Battlegrounds

Notes

Chapter 4: A Reluctant Congress Faces the Abortion Issue

Notes

Chapter 5: Abortion and Presidential Politics

Notes

Chapter 6: The Tide Turns: The Rehnquist Court and Webster v. Reproductive Health Services

Notes

Chapter 7: Public Opinion and Abortion

Notes

Chapter 8: Abortion and State Politics After Webster

Notes

Chapter 9: Abortion and National Politics

Notes

Chapter 10: Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, the Rehnquist Court, and American Politics

Conclusion

Selected Bibliography

Index of Cases

Index of Names and Subjects
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Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics ("The Roe v. Wade Decision and Its Aftermath" begins on p. 13)
by David M. O'Brien. 446 pgs.

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Contents

Illustrations

Tables, Charts, and Graphs

Preface

Acknowledgments

A Struggle for Power

The Cult of the Robe

Life in the Marble Temple

Deciding What to Decide

Deciding Cases and Writing Opinions

The Court and American Life

Appendix

Notes

Glossary

Selected Further Readings

Index
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Abortion: The Supreme Court Decisions, 1965-2000
by Ian Shapiro. 284 pgs.

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Preface

Editor's Introduction

Cases Griswold V Connecticut (1965)

Eisenstadt V Baird (1972)

Roe V Wade (1973)

Doe V Bolton (1973)

Planned Parenthood of Missouri V Danforth (1976)

Singleton V Wulff(1976)

Beal V Doe (1977)

Maher V Roe (1977)

Poelker V Doe (1977)

Colautti V Franklin (1979)

Bellotti V Baird (1979)

Harris V Mcrae (1980)

H L V Matheson (1981)

Akron V Akron Center for Reproductive Health (1983)

Planned Parenthood Association (Of Kansas City, Missouri) V Ashcroft (1983)

Simopoulos V Virginia (1983)

Thornburgh V American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1986)

Webster V Reproductive Health Services (1989)

Ohio V Akron Center for Reproductive Health (1990)

Hodgson V Minnesota (1990)

Planned Parenthood (Of Pennsylvania) V Casey (1992)

Stenberg V Carhart (2000)

Index
4.

Roe and the New Frontier, in Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
by Lisa Shaw Roy. 45 pgs.

Journal Article
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The Abortion Dispute and the American System (Discussion of Roe v. Wade begins on p. 13)
by Gilbert Y. Steiner. 106 pgs.

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Foreword

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Introduction: Abortion Policy and the Potential for Mischief

Lawrence M. Friedman The Conflict over Constitutional Legitimacy

Procedures and Politics in Congress

Conclusions

A Test of Fitness for Presidential Appointment?

Conclusion

Public Opinion, Elections, and the "Single-Issue" Issue

Reactions of the Symposium

Symposium Participants: with their affiliations at the time of the symposium

Appendix: The Prohibition Experience
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The Abortion Debate Thirty Years Later: From Choice to Coercion, in Fordham Urban Law Journal
by Maureen Kramlich. 22 pgs.

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The Abortion Controversy: A Documentary History (Part III "The 1973 Abortion Cases")
by Eva R. Rubin. 314 pgs.

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This collection brings together, for the first time, the key primary documents in the history of the abortion controversy in the United States. Organized by historical period, these 92 documents tell the story of this highly charged issue. An explanatory introduction geared to the needs of high school and college students accompanies each document. The collection emphasizes the political and social aspects of the debate, and many voices and conflicting views resound--in congressional hearings, Supreme Court decisions, government reports, party platforms, position papers, statutes, biographical accounts, and news stories. The heart of the work is the drama of Roe v. Wade--the cases that led to it, the Supreme Court decision and dissenting opinions, the reaction in Congress, public opinion, political consequences, and the most recent court tests. Each chapter includes a list of suggested readings. The book concludes with a chronology of events in the abortion controversy and a list of decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court relating to abortion.

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Title Page

Publication/Copyright Page

Copyright Acknowledgments

Advisory Board

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Series Foreword

Introduction

Part I: Before 1960

Abortion in Historical Context

Contraception and Abortion in America Before 1960

Bibliography

Part II: The Abortion Reform Movement (1960-1972)

The Reformers

Catalysts

Reform Activity in State Legislatures (1967-1972)

The Politics of State Legislative Reform (1967-1973)

Breakthrough in the Courts

The Abortion Situation Worldwide

Public Opinion

Conclusion

Philosophical Arguments for and Against the Liberalization of Abortion Laws

Bibliography

Part III: The 1973 Abortion Cases

The Law and the Cases

The Immediate Reaction to the Abortion Decisions

Bibliography

Part IV: The Battle Lines Are Drawn (1974-1980)

State Legislative Action and Judicial Response (1974-1980)

Amending the Constitution

Politics and Elections

Conclusion

Bibliography

Part V: The Reagan and Bush Administrations and Beyond (1980- )

National Politics

State Legislation During the 1980s

New Issues and Problems

Bibliography

Epilogue: 1993 and After

Appendix A: Major Supreme Court Decisions Related to Abortion, 1973-1993

Appendix B: Chronology of Events in the Abortion Controversy

Index

About the Editor
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The Pro-choice Movement: Organization and Activism in the Abortion Conflict (Chap. 6 "Defending Roe v. Wade" begins on p. 66)
by Suzanne Staggenborg. 240 pgs.

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In this highly-praised analysis of the controversial pro-choice movement, Suzanne Staggenborg traces the development of the movement from its origins through the 1980s. She shows how a small group of activists were able to build on the momentum created by other social movements of the 1960s to win their cause--the legalization of abortion in 1973--and argues that professional leadership and formal organizational structures, together with threats from the anti-abortion movement and grass-roots support, enabled the pro-choice movement to remain an active force even after their primary goal had been achieved.

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Acknowledgments

Contents

1: Introduction

I: Origins of the Movement to Legalize Abortion

2: The Emergence of the Movement

3: Collective Action Through Established Means

4: Confrontation and Direct Action

II: Surviving the Victory, 1973-1976

5: Movement Maintenance and Reorganization

6: Defending Roe V. Wade

III: Countermovement Victories and Movement Expansion, 1977-1983

7: Organizational Expansion and Transformation

8: Single-Issue Politics

9: The Reproductive Rights Movement

IV: The Pro-Choice Movement in the 1980s and Beyond

10: Victory and Survival, 1983-1989

11: The Webster Ruling and Its Aftermath

12: Conclusion

Appendix A: Structures and Resources of Pro-Choice Movement Organizations

Appendix B: Organizational Newsletters and Documents

Appendix C: Interviews with Pro-Choice Activists

Notes

References

Index
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The Women of Roe v. Wade, in First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
by Mary Ann Glendon. 5 pgs.

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Abortion, Politics, and the Courts: Roe v. Wade and Its Aftermath
by Eva R. Rubin. 254 pgs.

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In 1973 the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision seemed to settle the abortion issue for all time. However, that victory did not win the war, and the impact of that milestone decision still echoes in on-going controversy, litigation, and political maneuvering. In this revised edition, Eva Rubin's discussion of Roe Vs. Wade's far-reaching abortion decision has been updated to bring the litigation and political-judicial controversy up through 1986. This revised account notes the changing character of the controversy and tries to assess the role of the courts in initiating social change and in controlling the impact of divisive political and social issues.

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Recent Titles in Contributions in American Studies: Series Editor: Robert H. Walker

Abortion, Politics, and the Courts: Roe V. Wade and Its Aftermath

Contents

Preface

Introduction

I: Conflict and Constitutional Decision

1: Reformers and Legislatures

2: Into the Courts: Litigation for Social Change

3: In the Supreme Court

4: The Politicization of Abortion

II: Aftermath: the Conflict Restructured

5: The State Legislative Response

6: On the National Level: Federal Action and Inaction

Afterword

Chronology 1980-1986

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index to Cases

Subject Index

About the Author
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State Abortion Legislation as a Public Good--Before and after Roe v. Wade, in Economic Inquiry
by Karen Smith Conway, Michael R. Butler. 18 pgs.

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Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (Chap. 2 "From Roe to Webster")
by Laurence H. Tribe. 304 pgs.

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The year 1992 will surely prove to be the most pivotal in America's abortion debate since the Roe v. Wade decision edition of a bestselling book includes the Supreme Court's latest aborton decisions and delves into the large issues at stake--privacy, changing relations between men and women, and more. Tribe is Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School.

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Abortion the Clash of Absolutes

Foreword to the New Paperback Edition

Contents

Acknowledgments

1: Approaching Abortion Anew

2: From Roe to Webster

3: Two Centuries of Abortion in America

4: Locating Abortion on the World Map

5: Finding Abortion Rights in the Constitution

6: The Equation's Other Side: Does It Matter Whether the Fetus is a Person?

7: The Politics of Abortion: From a New Right to the "New Right"

8: The Politics of Abortion: The Pro-Life Advocates in Power

9: In Search of Compromise

10: Beyond the Clash of Absolutes

Afterword

Notes

Abortion Case Law

Index
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Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe v. Wade
by Carole Joffe. 256 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: I'Ve Been Lucky to Have Been Part of This: Jane Hodgson and the Unending Struggle for Legal Abortion

Chapter Two: U.S. Medicine and the Marginalization of Abortion

Chapter Three: The Lengths to Which Women Would Go: Encountering Abortion before Roe

Chapter Four: I Was Doing It for Reasons of Conscience: Providing Illegal Abortions

Chapter Five: I Wanted to Do Something about Abortion: Facilitating Abortions before Roe

Chapter Six: Getting Your Hands Dirty: the Practice of Legal Abortion

Chapter Seven: Assuring a Future for Legal Abortion

Afterword

Notes

Index
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First among Friends: Interest Groups, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Right to Privacy (Chap. 3 "Amici Curiae and the Abortion Debate")
by Suzanne U. Samuels, Nadine Strossen. 286 pgs.

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In the last several decades, there has been an explosion in the number of amici curiae, or "friend of the Court," briefs filed with the U.S. Supreme Court. Amici are not formal parties to a lawsuit, but file to help inform the Justices about the wider repercussions of the case before them. Public law scholars have long discussed whether these briefs have an impact on the Justices. This book is the first study that seeks to assess the extent of amici influence.

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Foreword

Preface

1: Introduction: Decision-Making in the U.S. Supreme Court Introduction

2: The Right to Privacy Created: Poe V. Ullman and Griswold V. Connecticut

3: Amici Curiae and the Abortion Debate

4: Amici Curiae and Assistance in Dying

5: Amici Curiae and Protected Relationships

6: Conclusions

Sources

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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Pro-choice and Anti-abortion: Constitutional Theory and Public Policy
by James R. Bowers. 144 pgs.

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Bowers argues that, when correctly interpreted and applied, the Constitution and the theory of liberty on which it is based require government to reject the conventional pro-choice and anti-abortion perspectives as too extreme and incomplete. Instead, this book sets forth a position that government is constitutionally obligated to approach abortion policy from a middle perspective. Relying on a jurisprudence of original theory, Pro-Choice and Anti-Abortion forcefully asserts that government is constitutionally constrained to formulate abortion policy that is at once pro-choice and anti-abortion. In so arguing, this book walks readers through this constitutionally mandated middle position by introducing them to the liberal teachings of John Locke that were so influential to the framers of the Constitution and by applying this political theory to the major issues of the abortion controversy--including the individual liberty interest in the abortion decision, minors and abortions, the liberty interest of the fetal-being, and the Freedom of Choice Act.

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Preface

Acknowledgements

1: Reconciling the Irreconcilable

2: An Introduction to John Locke's Liberalism

3: Locke's Liberalism and The Constitution

4: A Lockean Understanding of the Liberty Interest in the Abortion Decision

5: The Abortion Decision and Minor Women

6: Fetal-Being Personhood, Preservation and Limits on the Abortion Decision

7: The Freedom of Choice Act

Afterword

List of Cases

References

Index

About the Author
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Historic U.S. Court Cases: An Encyclopedia, Vol. II ("Abortion: Who Shall Decide?" begins on p. 1047)
by John W. Johnson. 1089 pgs.

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This collection of essays looks at over 200 major court cases, at both state and federal levels, from the colonial period to the present. Organized thematically, the articles range from 1,000 to 5,000 words and include recent topics such as the Microsoft antitrust case, the O.J. Simpson trials, and the Clinton impeachment. This new edition includes 42 new essays as well as updates throughout, with end-of-essay bibliographies and indexes by case and subject/name.

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Slavery

The End of Slavery in Massachusetts

Emancipation of Slaves in Transit

Upholding the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793

"They Have No Rights"

Slavery, Freedom, and Federal Judicial Power

Slaves-In-Transit and the Antebellum Crisis

African Americans Since 1865

No "Right" to Vote: the Reconstruction Election Cases

Civil Rights or Last Rites?

"Separate but Equal" Approved

Race, Law, and Gender in South Carolina, 1925-1927

Justice Vindicated: the Case of William Harper, 1931

The Scottsboro Cases

Separate Education is Not Equal Education

The Little Rock Crisis: State Interposition Against the Supreme Court

A Case of Black and White: Removing Restrictions Against Interracial Marriages

The School Busing Case

Desegregation Heads North

Far Enough? the Rehnquist Court and Desegregation

Native Americans

The Cherokee Cases

The "Death Knell of the Nations"

Why Native Americans Can No Longer Count on Treaties with the U.S. Government

Native American Land Claims: the Indians Finally Win

Other Racial Minorities

Chinese Laundries and the Fourteenth Amendment

The Japanese Internment Cases

How Should We Pay for Our Schools?

Affirmative Action: Can a White, College-Educated Male Be a Victim of Discrimination?

Is Race Still a Compelling Factor?

Women

Should a Woman Be Admitted to the Bar?

Aberration in the Movement Toward an Eight-Hour Day

The Law Recognizes "Women Are Different"

A Supreme Court First: Equal Protection Applied to Women

Sex Discrimination: Reasonable or Suspect?

Law Upheld Guaranteeing Right to Return to Work After Childbirth Leave of Absence

The Fetus and the Workplace

Do Women Belong in Military Academies?

Protecting Students from Sexual Harassment

Gays and Lesbians

When Consenting Adults Can't: Privacy, the Law, and Homosexual Conduct

Does the Right to Privacy End Where Sexual Preference Begins?

"Animus" or Moral Justification?: Anti-Gay Laws and Equal Protection

Americans with Disabilities

"Three Generations of Imbeciles Are Enough"

School Medical Services for Children with Disabilities

Mitigating Measures and the Definition

Is Walking an Integral Part of the Game of Golf ?

Freedom of Speech

State Wrongs and the Bill of Rights

Defining Free-Speech Protection in the World War I Era

Agrarian Reform and the Politics of Loyalty

Expanding Free Speech to the States

Silencing Critics: Guilt by Association in the 1920s

The California Red Flag Law and Freedom of Speech

Cold War, Communism, and Free Speech

The Smith Act Narrowed

"Breach of Peace" and Group Libel

The Constitution Finds Its Way Inside the Schoolhouse Gate

Commercial Speech and the First Amendment

Free Speech and Legal Ethics: the Issue of Lawyer Advertising

Flag Burning and the Constitution

Reigniting the "Fighting Words"/ "Symbolic Speech" Debate: Cross Burning and the Constitution

Freedom of the Press

Myth and Reality: the Case of John Peter Zenger

The Sedition Act and the Price of a Free Press

The Limits of Prior Restraint

Public Officials, Libel, and a Free Press

Public Personalities and the Right to Privacy

The Pentagon Papers

Public Disclosure of Private Facts

Did Cbs Libel General Westmoreland?

The "Preacher" and the "Smut Merchant

Freedom of Religion

Religion, Cultural Pluralism, and the Constitution: Mormonism and Polygamy

The Scopes Trial: a Collision of Cultures

The Flag Salute Cases

Religion in the Public School Day: the Released Time Cases

To Pray or Not to Pray: the Supreme Court Says No to Prayer in the Public Schools

Conscientious Objection: a Right or a Privilege?

Lemon Test, Not So Pretty

Expanded Exercise: the Amish, Compulsory Education, and Religious Freedom

The Pieties of Silence

Religious Practices and the First Amendment: the Peyote Case

Obscenity and Pornography

Obscenity: "I Know It When I See It!"

A Book Named Fanny Hill

The Triumph of "Community Standards"

Pornography, Feminism, and Free Speech

"Cyberporn" and the Constitution

Other Civil Liberties Issues

The Court and the Committee

The Court and the Committee: Part Two

The Right to Travel

Family Welfare Rights and the Right to Travel

Privacy

Meaningful Shadows? the Right of Privacy Achieves Constitutional Status

The Right of Guardians to Terminate Life-Extending

Physician-Assisted Suicide; Death with Dignity?

Abortion: Who Shall Decide?

Preserving the "Essence" of Roe V. Wade

Index of Cases

Index of Names and Subjects

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