Abortion
Culture both affects and is affected by the law. They are
inextricably intertwined. One cannot tolerate violence and death without being
affected.
The law is a teacher and becomes part of who we are as individuals and
as a people. Roe’s implication that legal rights don’t always follow the
biological realities of human life and the Supreme Court’s deification of
personal autonomy in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S 833 (1992),
have helped to form a culture in which this autonomy has become the only
acceptable basis for human rights,
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Mother
Teresa’s 1994 Message to the Supreme Court on Abortion
reprinted in
Public Discourse,
9/5/16
Mother Teresa submitted this
amicus brief
to the United States Supreme Court to persuade
them to overrule Roe v. Wade. The
Supreme Court has reaffirmed Roe
three times since the original
ruling in 1973. |
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Abortion Ruling Ignored Medical Facts
Denise Mackura
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
7/10/16
This is a letter-to-the-editor published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer in
response to the recent Supreme Court decision on abortion regulation |
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Supreme Court Nominations and the Virtues of a
Resolute Senate
Nathaniel Bruno
Public Discourse, March 17,
2016
The author reviews the constitutional
issues presented by recent executive actions and the grounds for the United
States Senate to refrain from taking any action to consider a new Supreme Court
justice until after the election and inauguration of a new president. |
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This is a revised chart that shows
that 80% of the American people will be unaffected immediately after Roe
v. Wade is overruled because they live in one
of the 39 states where abortion will remain legal after the overruling.
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News Release
New Study Reveals that
Overturning Roe Will Not Impact Legality of Abortion in Most States
Human Family Research Center
January 21, 2016
The Human Family Research Center just
completed a major study of state laws after Roe v. Wade is overruled.
The map and chart demonstrate quite clearly that the predictions of vast
disruption cannot be supported. In fact,
abortion will be against the law in only 11 states post-Roe, representing
only 20 per cent of the United States population.
The number could be smaller if legal challenges are mounted in those states.
This means that the issue of abortion
will be returned to the people in the vast majority of states to finally let the
people have their say about whether unborn
children should be protected.
Attachments:
Map of the United States showing where abortion
will be legal when Roe v. Wade is overruled
Chart describing the status of the legality of abortion in each state
after Roe v. Wade is overruled.
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New Perspective on Roe v.
Wade,
Denise Mackura, President,
Human Family Research
Center,
The Cleveland Plain Dealer,
1/23/15
This editorial describes a
route to developing a
democratic resolution of the
issue of the legality of
abortion in America
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A Roe Primer
Paul Benjamin Linton
The Human Life Review
January 20. 2014
A review of the legal
theories used in Roe v. Wade, Doe v. Bolton, Casey
v. Planned Parenthood and the future of abortion
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Roe v. Wade, 210 U.S. 113 (1973)
The
Supreme Court found that state criminal abortion statute
that excepts from criminality only a lifesaving
procedure on behalf of the mother, without regard to
pregnancy stage and without recognition of the other
interests involved, is violative of the Due Process
Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. For the stage prior
to approximately the end of the first trimester, the
abortion decision and its effectuation must be left to
the medical judgment of the pregnant woman's attending
physician. For the stage subsequent to approximately the
end of the first trimester, the State, in promoting its
interest in the health of the mother, may, if it
chooses, regulate the abortion procedure in ways that
are reasonably related to maternal health. For the stage
subsequent to viability, the State in promoting its
interest in the potentiality of human life [p165] may,
if it chooses, regulate, and even proscribe, abortion
except where it is necessary, in appropriate medical
judgment, for the preservation of the life or health of
the mother. The Court also found that the word "person,"
as used in the
Fourteenth Amendment, does not include the unborn.
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Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 192 (1973)
In the companion case to
Roe, Doe v. Bolton, the Court defined the scope of the
health exception, relying on its earlier opinion in
United States v. Vuitch, 402 U.S. 62 (1971): [T]he
medical judgment may be exercised in the light of all
factors – physical, emotional, psychological, familial,
and the woman’s age – relevant to the well-being of the
patient. All these factors may relate to health. Doe,
410 U.S. at 192
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