Roe v. Wade

Title: Roe v. Wade
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Roe v. Wade

It is important that the reader understand the current legal status of abortion in America. There seems to be a widespread perception that the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade (1973) only permits abortions up to 24 weeks, and after that time only to save the life of the mother. This false perception -- fueled in large part by groups supporting abortion rights -- is uncritically accepted by the media. The fact is that the current law does not …showed first 75 words of 1072 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1072 total…John Warwick Montgomery, "The Rights of Unborn Children," Simon Greenleaf Law Review 5 (1985-86):40. [6] Victor G. Rosenblum and Thomas J. Marzen, "Strategies for Reversing Roe v. Wade through the Courts," in Abortion and the Constitution: Reversing Roe v. Wade through the Courts, ed. Dennis Horan, Edward R. Grant, and Paige C. Cunningham (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1987), 199-200. [7] John Hart Ely, "The Wages of Crying Wolf: A comment on Roe v. Wade," Yale Law Journal 82 (1973):921 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** attached

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