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The Role of Women in Abortion Jurisprudence: From Roe to Casey and Beyond

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

Patricia A. Martin
Affiliation:
University of San Francisco

Extract

In many ways, Roe v. Wade marked a new chapter in American life. By assuring women of greater reproductive freedom., It gave women greater economic and social freedom, Inflamed a partisan battle between pro-life and pro-choice camps, and provoked a public debate regarding the proper sphere of judicial action. Hence, just as Roe has been critical to the changing politics of gender, it has been the focus of a political debate about the meaning of personhood and morality of abortion, the scope of individual freedom, and the judiciary's role in effecting social change.

Type
Special Section: From Cells to Selves: Ethics at the Beginning of Life
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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