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Title: abortion
Category: /Social Sciences/Controversial Issues
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abortion
Abortion In Roe et al. v. Wade District Attorney of Dallas County (1973), one of the most controversial cases in recent history, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down all state laws that limit a woman's right to an abortion during the first three months of pregnancy. Justices Rehnquist and White dissented. Mr. Justice Blackmun delivered the opinion of the Court.... This Texas federal appeal and its Georgia companion, Doe v. Bolton, post, p. 179, present constitutional …showed first 75 words of 2953 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2953 total…that the states might regulate or even prohibit abortions subject to appropriate medical judgment. The decision aroused nationwide controversy. The Court has several times approved states' procedural restrictions, but in 1992 it reaffirmed Roe's basic rule. Bibliography: Faux, M., Roe vs. Wade (1989) Garrow, David J., Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade (1994) Krason, Stephen M., Abortion: Politics, Morality, and the Constitution (1984) Rubin, Eva, Abortion, Politics, and the Courts (1982; repr. 1987).

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