During the Law Teachers Seminar on Law, Society, and Moral Order at Syracuse University
in 1979, Professor Richard Schwartz presented a graphic image of" the gap" that may exist …

Moral argument, jurisprudential theory, and social and medical facts intertwine in a
consideration of the constitutional issues posed by abortion. In this paper we propose to …

Since the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade,'which famously held that a woman
enjoyed a fundamental right to terminate a pregnancy, many scholars have been …

No judicial decision in our time has aroused as much sustained public outrage, emotion,
and physical violence, or as much intemperate professional criticism, as the Supreme …

On Jan. 22, 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its historic decisions on abortion (Roe v.
Wade, Doe v. Bolton). The reactions to these decisions were swift and predictable. Paul …

My first point is a plea for greater sanity in the debate over abortion laws—a plea directed
against the credence currently given the contention that anyone who opposes any of the …

Judith Jarvis Thomson is best known for a defense of abortion that concedes the fetus's
personhood but nevertheless maintains that a right to abortion is morally justified. 1 She is …

In this Article, Professors Levy and Somek engage in a careful comparative analysis of the
leading constitutional abortion decisions in the United States and Germany. This analysis is …

Introduction For the last two decades, the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade has
dominated and controlled any discussion of the legality of abortion in the United States …

Educated American opinion today accords an acceptance to abortion which even a decade
ago it did not enjoy. Estimates of its actual practice in America vary enormously; the highest …