Proposed Constitutional Amendments on Abortion: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session ... |
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... Abortion After the Law , " by Paul Ramsey . " Abortion and the Constitution : An Examination of the Proposed Anti - Abortion Amendments , " by Jill Laurie Goodman and Alice M. Price -- " Abortion and the Constitution : the Need for a ...
... Abortion After the Law , " by Paul Ramsey . " Abortion and the Constitution : An Examination of the Proposed Anti - Abortion Amendments , " by Jill Laurie Goodman and Alice M. Price -- " Abortion and the Constitution : the Need for a ...
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... abortion . State legislatures have also enacted a number of other anti - abortion measures , including parental or spousal consent requirements ( now being litigated in the U.S. Supreme Court ) , prohibitive regulation of abortion ...
... abortion . State legislatures have also enacted a number of other anti - abortion measures , including parental or spousal consent requirements ( now being litigated in the U.S. Supreme Court ) , prohibitive regulation of abortion ...
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... anti - abortion forces is the " States Rights " amendment which would give the 50 states the power to regulate or forbid the performance of abortion , while this approach would generally restrict women's access to safe , legal abortion ...
... anti - abortion forces is the " States Rights " amendment which would give the 50 states the power to regulate or forbid the performance of abortion , while this approach would generally restrict women's access to safe , legal abortion ...
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... abortion colleagues . Since then he has concentrated on searching for a " middle ground " where pro- and anti - abortion forces can meet in peace and " bury their divisive debate . " This meeting place , he now believes , can be reached ...
... abortion colleagues . Since then he has concentrated on searching for a " middle ground " where pro- and anti - abortion forces can meet in peace and " bury their divisive debate . " This meeting place , he now believes , can be reached ...
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... anti - abor- tion position because of the respect due the now recognized pre - natal life , and its launching a campaign for tough laws against abortion , comprise the real answer - the complete answer to the question you put to a pro - ...
... anti - abor- tion position because of the respect due the now recognized pre - natal life , and its launching a campaign for tough laws against abortion , comprise the real answer - the complete answer to the question you put to a pro - ...
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Page 828 - If the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child.
Page 821 - A classification having some reasonable basis does not offend against that clause merely because it is not made with mathematical nicety or because in practice it results in some inequality.
Page 814 - That woman's physical structure and the performance of maternal functions place her at a disadvantage in the struggle for subsistence is obvious. This is especially true when the burdens of motherhood are upon her. Even when they are not, by abundant testimony of the medical fraternity continuance for a long time on her feet at work, repeating this from day to day, tends to injurious effects upon the body, and, as healthy mothers are essential to vigorous offspring, the physical well-being of woman...
Page 778 - Even so, they are not of the very essence of a scheme of ordered liberty. To abolish them is not to violate a "principle of justice so rooted in the traditions and conscience of our people as to be ranked as fundamental.
Page 734 - All this, together with our observation, supra, that throughout the major portion of the 19th century prevailing legal abortion practices were far freer than they are today, persuades us that the word "person...
Page 951 - If the State is interested in protecting fetal life after viability, it may go so far as to proscribe abortion during that period except when it is necessary to preserve the life or health of the mother.
Page 817 - must be reasonable, not arbitrary, and must rest upon some ground of difference having a fair and substantial relation to the object of the legislation, so that all persons similarly circumstanced shall be treated alike.
Page 673 - The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
Page 669 - The pregnant woman cannot be isolated in her privacy. She carries an embryo and, later, a fetus, if one accepts the medical definitions of the developing young in the human uterus.
Page 696 - I don't know what you mean by 'glory,' " Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't — till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!