Women in the United States have the basic right to terminate a pregnancy before the fetus is
viable. 1 This right does not guarantee that a woman will have the financial resources to …

In Stenberg v. Carhart, I the Supreme Court struck down a Nebraska statute banning" partial
birth" abortion. 2 The 1999 decision represented the Court's first major ruling on abortion in …

Contrary to popular opinion, Roe v. Wade no longer expresses the law of the land. 1 Twenty
years after Roe, the Supreme Court in Planned Parenthood v. Casey weakened Roe's …

During the course of its October 1999 term, the US Supreme Court handed down a veritable
potpourri of colour and controversy with rulings on subjects as diverse as campaign finance …

The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 [hereinafter" the 2003 Act"] was the third time in
eight years that Congress attempted to ban the procedure referred to as" partial-birth …

Methods, REPROD. FREEDOM IN Focus (The Center for Reprod. Law & Policy, New York,
NY), Oct. 23, 1997." One of the newest strategies of abortion opponents is to introduce bans …

Almost immediately after President George W. Bush signed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban
Act of 2003 (PBABA) 1 on November 5, 2003, the storm of rhetoric began. Within hours of …

Abortion is an issue that this country has struggled with for more than 150 years The
decision of whether or not to permit abortions was left up to the states until 1973, when the …

Gonzales v. Carhart'continues the Supreme Court's haphazard development of its abortion
jurisprudence-and neatly illustrates everything that has gone awry in modem constitutional …

COMMENT Page 1 COMMENT UPDATE: PHASING OUT ABORTION: ONE STEP CLOSER
TO TERMINATING A WOMAN'S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT, IN GONZALES V. CARHART [T]he …