In 1973, the Supreme Court put an end to illegal abortions. The Court determined in Roe v.
Wade2 that the right of privacy embedded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of …

The ongoing battle between those who champion" freedom of choice" and those who
advocate" right to life" has escalated in recent years as each side more vehemently, and …

ABORTION AREA Page 1 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ABORTION AREA Alfred L.
Scanlan, Esquire Shea & Gardner Washington, DC I. Introduction A. It is a pleasure, up to a …

The law's treatment of abortion has undergone a fundamental transformation in the present
century which has been marked by a clear trend towards decriminalization of the matter vis …

Over the last several decades, as part of the movement against abortion rights, abortion has
become increasingly stigmatized and isolated in women's health.'The current segregation of …

What should be the legal role of parents in their daughters' decisions about reproduction
and childbearing? This is the basic policy question that legislators and the courts will …

Rarely has an issue sustained the level of public controversy that the abortion issue has.
Even more rarely has a controversy been as protracted and seemingly irreconcilable as this …

We know something more of the actual process of conception and foetal development now
than when some of the common-law cases were decided.... The complaint here, in alleging …

Abortion is the issue that will not go away. It pops up in dinner party discussion and in our
political lives, even when many people would rather avoid the topic.'Ever since the United …

In Gonzales v Carhart'the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the
Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003-a federal statute criminalising a medical procedure …