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Later this month, the Court will hear Webster v. Reproductive Health Services--the first case threatening Roe since the appointments of Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy tipped the Court's ideological balance to the right...
Professor of Law Charles Fried, solicitorgeneral during the Reagan administration, willpresent the Court with President Bush's stance.Fried has already submitted a brief recommendingthat the Court use Webster as a test caseand review...
...decision has been in jeopardy since the Reagan administration committed itself to appointing antiabortion justices. This year, the court agreed to hear the case of Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, in which the state of Missouri challenged the Roe decision. In 1986, the last time the Supreme Court considered the issue, it reaffirmed Roe by a 5-4 vote. But since then, Justice Lewis F. Powell, who voted with the majority, has been replaced by Justice Anthony Kennedy, whom many believe opposes...
...state of Missouri has asked the Court to consider an appeal in the Webster case on several different rulings. The first is a District Court's decision that the preamble to the Missouri abortion law--which declares that "the life of each human being begins at conception"--is an impermissible definition on the part of the state about when life begins...
...there are two changes which probably will come out of the Webster case. The first will allow states to forbid publicly funded clinics to offer abortion as an alternative in counseling. The second will permit laws forbidding public facilities to perform abortions, even if the woman is paying for it herself. In several states, including Missouri, most abortions are currently performed at public hospitals...