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From Arguments to Supreme Court Opinions in Planned Parenthood v. Casey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Nancy Kassop
Nancy Kassop*
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State University of New York, College at New Paltz
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It is June 30, 1992. The Supreme Court handed down its decision yesterday in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and now the analysis and debate over its immediate and longterm impact on abortion law and reproductive rights will begin for legal scholars and political leaders. But for public law specialists in political science, the intellectual curiosity about this case began many months ago, and the announcement of yesterday's decision was only the latest in a string of actions that many had already followed with great interest. In the rush to explain the significance of Casey to the public, the route by which it got to the Court and the arguments that shaped the ultimate result may be easily overlooked and dismissed by some as no longer relevant: what matters now will be to feed the public's appetite for a fastfood explanation of a high-profile case. But to public law specialists, what went before matters very much, indeed. A case is more than its outcome, and the parts that came before deserve some attention for the role they played in contributing to the final result.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , March 1993 , pp. 53 - 58
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1993

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