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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