| Description |
xvi, 374 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Background and perspectives on abortion -- Abandoning error : self-correction by the Supreme Court / Michael Pearce Pfeifer -- Prolife litigation and the American civil liberties tradition / Richard S. Myers -- Roe v. Wade : no justification in history, law, or logic / Dennis J. Horan and Thomas J. Balch -- Reconciling Santa Clara and Roe v. Wade : a route to Supreme Court recognition of unborn children as Constitutional persons / John P. East and Steven R. Valentine -- Natural law and the rights of the unborn / John M. Finnis -- Part II. Historical evaluations of Roe and abortion -- The ancients and the medievals on abortion : the consensus the court ignored / John R. Connery -- Abortion and the law : Blackmun's distortion of the historical record / Joseph W. Dellapenna -- Roe and the Hippocratic Oath / Martin Arbagi -- Part III. Strategies for reversal of Roe v. Wade -- Case tactics and court strategies / William Bentley Ball -- Strategies for reversing Roe v. Wade through the courts / Victor G. Rosenblum and Thomas J. Marzen -- Judicial appointments to the lower federal courts : the ultimate arbiters of the abortion doctrine / Lynn D. Wardle -- Part IV. Conclusion -- Abortion and the Constitution : the impact of Thornburgh on the strategy to reverse Roe v. Wade / Edward R. Grant. |
| Subject |
Abortion -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Constitutional law -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Horan, Dennis J.
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Grant, Edward R.
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Cunningham, Paige C. (Paige Comstock)
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| ISBN |
0878404473 paperback |
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0878404465 hardcover |
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