Roe v. Wade: The Untold Story of the Landmark Supreme Court Decision that Made Abortion Legal
Marian Faux
Language: English
Pages: 408
ISBN: 081541093X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
From the back-alley clinics of illegal abortionists to the behind-the scene deliberations of the Supreme Court justices, Roe v. Wade is a riveting history of the thorniest ethical debate ever brought before the Supreme Court. this is the bull story behind the struggle of two lawyers, Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee and their unwed, unemployed, pregnant client Norma McCorvey.
In this updated edition Faux details recent challengesand erosions to the decision―including parental consent laws and bans on partial-birth abortions―and illuminates how the ruling has impacted public attitudes and policy.
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four to three in their favor. They believed Burger and Stewart would oppose any expansion of civil rights. Marshall, Douglas, and Brennan, the court’s liberals, were undoubtedly with them, and Blackmun and White were the wild cards. But the reformers were fairly sure they had Blackmun on their side because so many physicians wanted to liberalize the abortion laws. Despite the doomsayers who warned that the Court would not concern itself with constitutional issues, Weddington hoped that she would
affected by a change in the abortion laws. To the extent that it was possible to do so, they wanted to choose a plaintiff who would be helpful to them in achieving the larger goal. It was not necessarily an easy task. For one thing, they would need to exercise more control over the plaintiff than they would in another kind of suit. They would use her, if necessary, in and out of the courtroom to build their case. If they wanted to build public sympathy for the case, for example, they might leak
as far as the state of Arizona was concerned, on Tuesday when Judge McFate dismissed the case on grounds there was no real legal controversy. He gave the Finkbines’ attorney ten days to amend the case to show controversy, that is, to build a case around the real reason that Finkbine wanted an abortion, her unwillingness to bear what would almost certainly be a seriously deformed child. If she asked for an abortion on this ground, the state would almost certainly contest her plea, since no
Mexico’s recently passed reform law would go into effect in 1969, shortly before the Dallas reform movement took root. Although abortion reform was in the air across the country, Texas was hardly receptive to it. Texans were too chauvinistic and firmly entrenched in their own ways to seek any kind of social change. In a state that had eagerly sought annexation to the United States during the ten years from 1836 to 1846 when it was an independent republic, it was not surprising to find a large
became confused and vague. She thought the rapist might have been one of the men who had disrupted the circus earlier in the evening. What had happened to the women who were with her? Sarah asked. Norma said she did not know, she only knew that when she managed to rouse herself, she was alone. She stumbled back to her motel room, only to find it empty. Her roommates had vanished, taking her belongings with them. She did not report her rape to anyone, nor did she talk to or even see anyone in the
