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...assault on activist judges. At the American Bar Association convention in July, he complained that "too many courts have become more policy planners than interpreters of the law." The same month, the Justice Department challenged the Supreme Court by filing a brief that proposed reversing the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision, which struck down most legal restrictions on abortion in 1973. "The textual, doctrinal and historical basis for Roe vs. Wade," stated the brief, "is so far flawed and . . . is a source of such instability in the law that this court should reconsider that decision...
Almost simultaneously in Washington, Attorney General Edwin Meese III asked the Supreme Court to overturn its 1973 "Roe v. Wade" ruling legalizing abortions nationwide. Meese has asked the Supreme Court to reconsider the decision that gave women the Constitutional right to end their own pregnancies...
...Justice Department argues that Roe v. Wade has proved "inherently unworkable" and wrongly infringes on states' rights to limit abortions. If Roe v. Wade is slashed from the law books, anti-abortion factions now gaining power in states across the nation will have nothing to prevent them from pushing legislation to illegal abortion on the state level...
...Roe v. Wade is repealed, there is a real possibility that anti-abortion legislation will make it through the statehouses, particularly in more traditionally conservative regions. The Boston National Organization for Women reports that if Roe v. Wade is overturned, Massachusetts anti-abortion activists are gaining support for a bill that would virtually outlaw abortion in the state. The piece of legislation would call for an end to all "public" and "private" funding for abortion, leaving women without access to state funds, and unable to use their own funds for abortions...
COMPOUNDING THE class-based injustice of the Administration's proposal, the move to reverse Roe v. Wade is grounded in manipulation of information. The court did not, as Meese has charged, give women the "unfettered right" to "abortion on demand." Roe v. Wade holds that women may not be constrained from choosing abortions in the first trimester but gives states some rights to prohibit abortions in the second trimester and the right to prohibit all but lifesaving abortions in the third trimester. Roe v. Wade found that a woman's right to make reproductive decisions is part of a "right...