" 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 …

As the decade ends, advocates and opponents of abortion rights are demonstrating with
heightened fervor. Lawyers continue to prepare briefs for a lengthy docket of abortion cases …

I. The Politics of Abortion The emergence of abortion as a major issue in 1980 is not
accidental. There were 1.32 million legal abortions in the United States in 1977 and a …

Abortion statutes, modeled more or less after the Model Penal Code, 1 have been adopted
in Colorado, 2 North Carolina8 and California,* and proposals are pending in Delaware …

Proponents of abortion-on-demand have won a major battle-—-perhaps even the war—in
New York. While it lasted, the abortion controversy in that state was a microcosm of the …

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 …

" Spin doctors," as they came to be known in the last presidential campaign, practice a not-
so-fine art of press manipulation. The goal is generally to make bad news hurt less (eg," third …

Roe v. Wade1 is a unique decision in the 180 year history of judicial review. No other case,
not even Brown v. Board of Educa-tion, 2 caused such a loud and sustained public outcry …

On January 22, 1973, the United States Supreme Court handed down its opinion in Roe v.
Wade. 1 The seven-member majority seemed confident it had authoritatively resolved the …

I. Introduction rPHE CURRENT CONTROVERSY over liberalization of existing abortion laws
in many states raises fundamental issues concerning the proper province and function of …