However, responsibility is required for the fruitful exercise of any freedom. In order to act
responsibly, one must give due consideration to the consequences of various courses of …

Most Americans are weary of the controversy over what the la should say or do about
abortion. Millions of Americans want to avoid the crossfire between the partisans of the Right …

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 …

In truth, I am as distressed as the Court is-and expressed my distress several years ago [in
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services] about the" political pressure" directed to the Court …

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 …

Every person who provides, supplies, or administers to any woman, or procures any woman
to take any medicine, drug, or substance, or uses or employs any instrument or other means …

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

The persistent theme throughout the abortion decisions is the characterization of abortion as
a medical procedure. 9 Central to this theme is the constitutional protection afforded a …

" The right to life is one of the fundamental values on which Western society has been built."
St John-Stevas, The Right to Life 115 (1963) The abortion controversy is assuming national …

In hearings before the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee on her nomination
as US Surgeon General, 1 Arkansas Health Department Director Joycelyn Elders, MD, was …