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Eight years after its last major ruling on abortion, the Supreme Court stands posed to write a new chapter in the history of reproductive law. Most of the abortion-related decisions since Roe v. Wade have been concerned with the process surrounding abortions--state rules requiring parental consent, spousal notice, waiting periods, information, record keeping--and not the abortion procedures themselves. However, Stenberg v. Carhart, argued last Tuesday before the court, gives the justices an opportunity to clarify the constitutionality of bans on certain abortion procedures, specifically so-called "partial-birth abortions." In the past five years, 30 states have...
...case Justices have heard in eight years, and will test whether Nebraska and other states have the right to ban what has come to be called as partial-birth abortions. In the 1992 decision known as Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Justices by a single vote reaffirmed Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision establishing a woman's right to choose abortion in the first two trimesters of pregnancy. But they said the states had some leeway to regulate the procedure even before the fetus is viable, at around 24 weeks. In the mid '90s, the National Right to Life...
...constitutional events, from undermining Broadway's creative period of the '60s and '70s to distorting Supreme Court cases. He claims that Hair, the Broadway show, existed only to test the limits of censorship. He also corrupts important historical events, such as the introduction of the Pill and Roe v. Wade. He never mentions the feminist critique of the Pill, as a pharmaceutical example of male control of the reproductive nature of women, and claims that Roe never knew that she could not have an abortion after the third trimester, a fallacy according to the legal history of the case...
Attacks against abortion providers and clinics have been a constant occurrence in the last 15 years. There have been over 2,000 documented cases of violence against abortion providers since the passage of Roe v. Wade 28 years ago. Given this record of unrelenting violence it is no wonder that abortion activists find it so difficult to speak in a conciliatory and cooperative tone with those who share the same cause as these criminals do. And as much as non-violent anti-abortion activists deplore the actions of the fringe, in numerous subtle ways the leaders of the anti-abortion...
...definition of personhood. The two groups agree that the fetus is biologically human, but disagree on whether humanity automatically implies personhood, and whether this issue should be the focus of the debate. SFC views the fetus as a "potential life," in the words of Roe v. Wade, but not yet a full human person. Its position within the woman's body, and its status of complete dependency on her, situates it as part of her body rather than as its own separate entity...