Download or read book Pro Life V Pro Death Abortions and the Supreme Court written by Catherine Jaime and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roe v. Wade, Doe v. Bolton, and Planned Parenthood v. Casey - 3 landmark Supreme Court Cases dealing with abortions. Here in one place are important excerpts from all three cases. This book was put together by a conservative lay person for other conservatives. Examples of some of what you will find in the book: "The Constitution does not explicitly mention any right of privacy. In a line of decisions, however, going back perhaps as far as 1891, the Court has recognized that a right of personal privacy, or a guarantee of certain areas or zones of privacy, does exist under the Constitution." From Justice Blackmun's Majority Opinion in Roe v. Wade "The fact that a majority of the States reflecting, after all, the majority sentiment in those States, have had restrictions on abortions for at least a century is a strong indication, it seems to me, that the asserted right to an abortion is not "so rooted in the traditions and conscience of our people as to be ranked as fundamental." From Justice Rehnquist's Dissenting Opinion in Roe v. Wade "Roe v. Wade sets forth our conclusion that a pregnant woman does not have an absolute constitutional right to an abortion on her demand...Further, a physician or any other employee has the right to refrain, for moral or religious reasons, from participating in the abortion procedure." From Justice Blackmun's Majority Opinion in Doe v. Bolton "The common claim before us is that, for any one of such reasons, or for no reason at all, and without asserting or claiming any threat to life or health, any woman is entitled to an abortion at her request if she is able to find a medical advisor willing to undertake the procedure." From Justice White's Dissent in Doe v. Bolton "Viability marks the earliest point at which the State's interest in fetal life is constitutionally adequate to justify a legislative ban on nontherapeutic abortions. The soundness or unsoundess of that constitutional judgment in no sense turns on when viability occurs." From the Majority Opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey "The correct analysis is that set forth by the plurality opinion in Webster: a woman's interest in having an abortion is a form of liberty protected by the Due Process Clause, but States may regulate abortion procedures in ways rationally related to a legitimate state interest." From Rehnquist's Minority Opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey

Download or read book The Supreme Court and Legal Change written by Lee Epstein and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors analyze abortion and death penalty decisions by the Supreme Court and argue that they provide prime examples of abrupt legal change. After proposing that the strength of legal arguments has at least as much impact on Court decisions as do public opinion and justices' political beliefs, they focus on the way litigators propel certain issues onto the Court's agenda and seek to persuade the justices to affect legal change.

Download or read book Roe V Wade written by Marian Faux and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the back-alley clinics of illegal abortionists to the behind-the scene deliberations of the Supreme Court justices, Roe v. Wade is a riveting history of the thorniest ethical debate ever brought before the Supreme Court. this is the bull story behind the struggle of two lawyers, Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee and their unwed, unemployed, pregnant client Norma McCorvey. In this updated edition Faux details recent challengesand erosions to the decision--including parental consent laws and bans on partial-birth abortions--and illuminates how the ruling has impacted public attitudes and policy.

Download or read book Roe v Wade written by N. E. H. Hull and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few Supreme Court decisions have stirred up as much controversy, vitriolic debate, and even violence as Roe v. Wade in 1973. Four decades later, it remains a touchstone for the culture wars in the United States and a pivot upon which much of our politics turns. With that in mind, N. E. H. Hull and Peter Charles Hoffer have taken stock of the abortion debates, controversies, and cases that have emerged during the past decade in order to update their best-selling book on this landmark case. As with the first two editions, this book details the case’s historical background; highlights Roe v. Wade’s core issues, essential personalities, and key precedents; tracks the case’s path through the courts; clarifies the jurisprudence behind the Court’s ruling in Roe; assesses the impact of the presidential elections of George W. Bush and Barack Obama along with the confirmations of Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito, Justice Sonia Sotomayor; and gauges the case’s impact on American society and subsequent challenges to it in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989), Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), and Gonzales v. Carhart (2007). This third updated edition also adds two completely new chapters covering abortion politics and legal battles in Obama’s second term and Donald J. Trump’s first term. The new material covers two important cases in detail: Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt (2016) and June Medical Services, LLC v. Russo (2020). The cases dealt with state laws—Texas and Louisiana, respectively—designed to limit access to abortion by requiring doctors performing abortions to have admission privileges at a state-authorized hospital within thirty miles of the abortion clinic. In both cases the Court ruled the laws unconstitutional, thus handing abortion rights’ activists key victories in the face of an increasingly conservative Court. The new chapters also cover the confirmations of Justices Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh as well as the heated political environment surrounding the Court in the age of Trump.

Download or read book One Life written by William M. Connolly and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE LIFE examines the abortion controversy in depth and concludes that Roe v. Wade was a judicial travesty which distorted law, science, history and reason to legalize abortion on demand in America. ONE LIFE explains in detail and with clarity how and why the Supreme Court did so. The Reviewers' Comments and Table of Contents, below, are testament to the compelling evidence, comprehensive documentation and convincing arguments which supports ONE LIFE's conclusions about how and why the Supreme Court usurped the authority of fifty state legislatures and unconstitutionally withdrew nearly all legal protections from the fetus. The author, Mr. Connolly, a practicing lawyer in Boston who has appeared as co-counsel before the United States Supreme Court, is well qualified to write about the abortion debate. In addition to his legal training and experience, he has co-authored a book on a famous First Amendment, Free Speech case, From Trial Court to the United States Supreme Court, Anatomy of a Free Speech Case, Walkowski and Connolly (Branden 1995). He also has a strong academic background in the biomedical fields. He received a degree in biology, magna cum laude, from Boston College in 1967, studied medicine at Georgetown University Medical School from 1967 to 1971, received a degree in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1974, and a degree in law, cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School, in 1986. Before entering private practice in 1987, he had worked with federal, state and local agencies in the areas of public health and environmental protection. REVIEWERS' COMMENTS Joseph R. Nolan, University Professor, Suffolk University Law School, retired Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and co-editor of Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Edition: "You have brilliantly marshaled the facts and law on this deadly serious issue of abortion. I was even impressed with the details with which you set forth the Table of Contents. Your treatment of Roe v. Wade was fair, accurate and entirely professional. You dissected the constitutional matrix of the case with penetrating analysis. We are all your debtors for this extraordinary work. "Congratulations on a monumental work." Charles E. Rice, Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School: "Congratulations on a thorough exposure of the fallacies of Roe v. Wade. . . Your capsulization of Roe v. Wade is very good, as is your dismantling of Fr. Drinan's position. I hope you can get wide circulation for this work." Chester Darling, Constitutional lawyer and U. S. Supreme Court litigator: "One Life is an excellent book for anyone interested in grasping the essence and complexities of the abortion controversy. Students and professionals will benefit from its in-depth discussion of the legal, medical, scientific, philosophic and moral issues, which have made abortion such a divisive topic for Americans. One Life challenges the reader to critically examine Roe v. Wade and a judicial system which sometimes blunders badly. This book furthers the realization that Roe v. Wade was a judicial aberration which will take its place in legal history along with Dred Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson. Paul J. Walkowski, author: "One Life is the death knell for Roe v. Wade." ONE LIFE TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE: A brief history The Court distorts history Potential human life The holding or central ruling Fundamental rights CHAPTER 1: WHO DECIDES? Laws affecting our private lives Laws affecting our sex lives Private acts Laws affecting the fetus Laws affecting abortion The withdrawal of legal protection Who decides? A few personal notes Docere, delectare, et movere A clash of values CHAPTER 2: THE TAKING OF HUMAN LIFE. The conflict: some laws

Download or read book Defenders of the Unborn written by Daniel K. Williams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provocative and insightful, Defenders of the Unborn is a must-read for anyone who craves a deeper understanding of a highly-charged issue"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book The Ethics of Abortion written by Robert M. Baird and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve essays discuss the issue of abortion.

Download or read book Roe v Wade Abortion and a Woman s Right to Privacy written by Melissa Higgins and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US Supreme Court is the head of the judicial branch of the federal government. It is the highest court in the land, with thousands of cases appealed to it every year. One of those history-making cases was Roe v. Wade, which decided the legality of abortion in the United States. Readers will follow this case from beginning to end, including the social and political climates that led up to it and the effects it had after the court made its ruling. Major players and key ideas and events are discussed, including Jane Roe, aka Norma McCorvey, Linda Coffee, Sarah Weddington, women's rights, feminism, the history of attitudes toward and laws regarding abortion, abortion rates, birth control reform, the use of the Ninth and Fourteenth amendments, pro-life and pro-choice arguments, and ongoing challenges to the court's decision. Roe v. Wade continues to brew controversy in the nation today. This landmark Supreme Court case changed the course of US history and shaped the country we live in. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Download or read book Dobbs V Jackson and Some Factors Behind the Pro Life V Pro Abortion Choice Pendulum written by Rupert Macey-Dare and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent US Supreme Court case of Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization (24 June 2022) has overturned the c.50 year reign and previous landmark Supreme Court rulings of Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992). What Dobbs (delivered by a highly conservative Supreme Court judicial panel) now confirms is that under US Constitution law (which came into force in a pre-abortion century in 1789) as currently amended, there is no general right for women in the USA to abortion. This has unsurprisingly caused elation in the highly polarized US pro-life and religious lobbies, matched by outrage in the US pro-abortion-choice circles and beyond, at the prospect of the US annual abortion rate now being cut from c.1 million per year closer to zero. So in real terms impact, in 10 years' time, Dobbs v Jackson could have potentially created c.10m more live American children, and increased the US population by c.10m, born to up to c.10m American mothers, who originally preferred and would otherwise have obtained abortions instead.The underlying linked questions of: if, whether, when, how and how easily abortion should be available to women are complex and multi-layered because they intersect with multiple areas and considerations of: sociology, politics, law, philosophy and ethics, biology, medicine and technology amongst many others.Going back to mammal biology and mathematical biology modelling for example, it is well known that the partial but not total overlap in genes between mothers and their embryos, combined with the “selfish gene” theory can lead to both positive-sum cooperation and nurturing, but also to zero-sum adversarial competition between mother and embryo. So for example individual embryos can try to extract excess nutrients from their mothers, and mothers can try to restrict nutrients to individual embryos in favour of other current or future embryos or their own maternal welfare. Mothers can also reduce embryo numbers before birth and litter sizes after birth in response to various hormonal and environmental stressors.If we attribute any positive value to a particular human embryo, then philosophically any trade-off between the rights and interests of the mother versus the embryo can become some variant of the famous “trolley problem”, with linked questions of active intervention re: purely passive approach. Alternatively, can a woman's "right to choose" abortion be a legitimate trump-card right that potentially dominates any other? And if so then would the mother's motivation matter e.g. if seeking convenience or responding to social pressure or expressing a cultural preference for sons and the voluntary abortion of female embryos, as occurs wholesale in some parts of the developing world? If we attribute any humanity and human rights to a particular human embryo, as for example many religions and religious groups do as a matter of fundamental doctrine and belief, then a practical question arises of who are the independent advocates and protectors of that embryo's rights? From the biological background analysis above, these will often but not always be the mothers themselves and not necessarily always be the medical staff with whom those mothers contract. Specifically a mother and medics advocating a specific abortion cannot be assumed to be advocating on behalf of as opposed to directly against the interests of that embryo. Instead medical health professionals may well be applying surgical, pharmacological and mental health treatment approaches to their designated patient the mother.If we take a legal rights perspective, then the legal rights attributed and attributable to a particular embryo can be compared and calibrated with the legal rights attributed to: citizens, babies and children, the disabled including highly disabled, disabled from birth, the dying, the comatose and vegetative, and to animals domestic and wild and to property. However as earlier views on race and eugenics and disability show, that were previously taken in some countries as received wisdom and common sense, but are now viewed as abhorrent, the homogeneity and strength of public opinion on pro-life v pro-abortion-choice, cannot of itself imply that any latest opinion is objectively correct and will survive the further test of time and evolution of thinking and analysis.From an economic perspective, the supply and demand and pricing and availability in the market for abortion services, has to be seen in the parallel context also of the traditional competitor markets for alternative prophylactic birth control, childcare and family life, adoption and fostering, and the developing market for surrogacy. Similarly the economic funding apparently altruistically being offered by firms, typically banks, to help female employees obtain abortions, has to be seen in the context of those firms' own particular shareholder incentives both to maximize profit and short term employee welfare and engagement and firm attractiveness, and to minimize alternative expensive maternity cover costs. In fact these firms' interests clearly only partially overlap with those of the potential mother employee, as she is likely only to be a short or medium term employee in current high-turnover employment markets, whereas abortion related decisions typically have long term lifetime consequences for the parties, and the firm's interests are clearly also diametrically opposed to the intrinsic interests of the embryo concerned.There is even an argument that because a relaxed abortion climate e.g. following Roe v. Wade has historically been shown to be associated with reduced subsequent crime rates, therefore there is a valid economic social welfare policy argument that society can potentially trade-off the lives of abortable underprivileged embryos now in the hope or expectation of potential reductions in social crimes and delinquency and associated costs c.20 years later on. However this would also be dangerously close to a form of automatic eugenic social cleansing policy and one should also note that the sectors of society and generations affected by current abortions and potential future crime reductions would only partially overlap, hence this would certainly not benefit the aborted embryos themselves and probably not their own families either, and so would clearly not be in their interests.From a psychological perspective, modern choice experiments reveal that humans (and in fact great apes too, our closest living relatives) have specific cognitive biases and tend to be excessively averse to loss of current endowments, to excessively overweight known and current actual options rather than unknown, future and potential options, and to underweight the future and future prospects and future regret. These psychological characteristics, combined with environmental stressors of pregnancy, and any lack of awareness of both alternatives and of the hidden divergence between the incentives of market actors, mother and embryo, could arguably all lead to mothers taking excess pro-abortion decisions, in an abortion-facilitating environment, compared to what they would otherwise do and want to do. However, whether or not the new US Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v Jackson will improve or exacerbate matters by creating a less abortion-facilitating environment in the USA, and indeed globally, remains to be seen and no doubt debated and litigated and legislated at length. In fact only 2 weeks after Dobbs v Jackson, US President Biden issued a first partial countermeasure response, namely his “Executive Order on Protecting Access to Reproductive Healthcare Services” in the USA.

Download or read book Abortion and Dialogue written by Ruth Colker and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1992-09-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The issues she takes on are crucial -- not solely the subject areas of reproductive rights and law, or public policy lenses and judicial impact in women's and children's lives, but also the more difficult and fundamental questions of how these 'hot topics' can be approached so as to make the most of the good will of all and the force of free discussion for social learning.... she brings a strong, evolving and distinctive perspective to the discussion." -- Emily Fowler Hartigan In Abortion and Dialogue, Ruth Colker argues that the state falsely views the woman and the fetus as having conflicting needs when it intervenes in decisions regarding preganancies. Colker's feminist-theological perspective on reproductive health issues encourages both pro-choice and pro-life advocates to consider how the value of life is implicated in discussions of reproduction. Colker argues that theology can contribute to our understanding if we apply the concepts of love, compassion, and wisdom to problems identified by feminist theory and to actual concrete situations: the impact of abortion regulations on poor female adolescents; the judicial treatment of abortion regulations; state intervention into women's decision-making during pregnancies carried to term. Colker concludes by examining effective and respectful family-planning strategies that truly help women in making reproductive choices.

Download or read book Abortion and the Law in America written by Mary Ziegler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the Supreme Court likely to reverse Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion decision, American debate appears fixated on clashing rights. The first comprehensive legal history of a vital period, Abortion and the Law in America illuminates an entirely different and unexpected shift in the terms of debate. Rather than simply championing rights, those on opposing sides battled about the policy costs and benefits of abortion and laws restricting it. This mostly unknown turn deepened polarization in ways many have missed. Never abandoning their constitutional demands, pro-choice and pro-life advocates increasingly disagreed about the basic facts. Drawing on unexplored records and interviews with key participants, Ziegler complicates the view that the Supreme Court is responsible for the escalation of the conflict. A gripping account of social-movement divides and crucial legal strategies, this book delivers a definitive recent history of an issue that transforms American law and politics to this day.

Download or read book A Woman s Right to an Abortion written by D. J. Herda and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abortion has long been a hot-button issue. In 1973, in the landmark case of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court finally decided that women should be allowed to have an abortion, with some limits. This book gives the background on the case and the path the case took to make it to the Supreme Court and presents both the majority and dissenting opinions related to the case. It also takes a look at the lasting impact the case has continued to have on policies and the legal system. Also included are questions to consider, primary source documents, and a chronology of the case.

Download or read book Compelling Interest written by Roger Resler and published by eChristian. This book was released on 2012 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is a fetus a person? Is "pro-choice" a neutral position? For 40 years since the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision, the abortion debate has been highly charged and politicized. Questions like these-and passionate but widely varying answers-have become the common language of the public dialogue on this issue. Yet behind the scenes of this historic case are other intriguing questions: ʺ How did the Supreme Court come to be involved in the abortion debate? ʺ Was language manipulated to affect the outcome? ʺ What was the moral basis underlying the decision? In Compelling Interest, author Roger Resler draws on original sources, including the actual transcripts for oral arguments, the majority and minority opinions, and comments by the lawyers and others involved to take a careful look at the real story behind the historic Roe v. Wade decision. Resler includes conversations with experts, including sociology professor Dr. William Brennan, the late Dr. Mildred Jefferson and Dr. Carolyn Gerster who co-founded the National Right to Life Committee, prolific author and speaker Randy Alcorn, bioethics professor Dr. Gerard Magill, perinatologist Dr. James Thorp, and photojournalist Michael Clancy. This carefully researched book speaks with a thought-provoking, balanced voice that stands out from the usual partisan rhetoric on the topic.

Download or read book Pro Life Pro Choice written by Bertha Alvarez Manninen and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative and accessible book, the author defends a pro-choice perspective but also takes seriously pro-life concerns about the moral value of the human fetus, questioning whether a fetus is nothing more than "mere tissue." She examines the legal status of the fetus in the recent Personhood Amendments in state legislatures and in Supreme Court decisions and asks whether Roe v. Wade should have focused on the viability of the fetus or on the bodily integrity of the woman. Manninen approaches the abortion controversy through a variety of perspectives and ethical frameworks. She addresses the social circumstances that influence many women's decision to abort and considers whether we believe that there are good and bad reasons to abort. Manninen also looks at the call for post-abortion fetal grieving rituals for women who desire them and the attempt to make room in the pro-choice position for the views of prospective fathers. The author spells out how the two sides demonize each other and proposes ways to find degrees of convergence between the seemingly intractable positions.

Download or read book Landmark Briefs and Arguments of the Supreme Court of the United States written by Philip B. Kurland and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Supreme Court and Legal Change written by Lee Epstein and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Abortion Politics and the Courts written by Eva R. Rubin and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1987-05-21 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.