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...practical effect of the current decisions will be to strike down almost all the various constraints that states have placed on abortion rights. These include: rigid rules that minors obtain the consent of their parents, requirements that abortions after the first three months of pregnancy be performed in full-service hospitals, mandatory waiting periods after a woman has requested an abortion, and required counseling designed to discourage abortions. The court let stand a requirement that pathology reports be made following abortions and that two physicians be present at abortions conducted after the sixth month of a pregnancy. Both are relatively...
...Akron law, like those in 15 states, also established detailed requirements for informing a woman of the physical development of the fetus and the potential medical and emotional factors that might affect her if she has an abortion. The court ruled that requiring this type of "informed consent" is unconstitutional. "Much of the information required is designed not to inform the woman's consent but rather to persuade her to withhold it altogether...
...founding impulses of America were not original. They came from the Magna Carta, from the British Bill of Rights, from Locke and Montesquieu, from St. Augustine and Nicholas of Cusa ("Since all men are by nature free, then government rests on the consent of the governed") and a hundred other places. The young, exuberant colonies fused them into revolution...
...spent the next two years as a public defender in San Francisco, where she rolled up a stunning 13-2 record injury verdicts, then left 18 months ago to set up a criminal practice. She will not represent an accused rapist whose defense is the woman's consent: "I don't want to be in the position [on crossexamination] of saying, 'Didn't you really want it?' " Most of her clients are drug defendants. One, accused of being the ringleader of West Coast cocaine dealers, looked like a sure loser after his codefendant turned state...
Opponents of the tax-cut delay criticized the final decision for changing Prop 21/2 without voter consent, but they still claimed success...