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The Consequences of Roe V. Wade and Doe V. Bolton
S. HRG. 109–1039 THE CONSEQUENCES OF ROE V. WADE AND DOE V. BOLTON HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION, CIVIL RIGHTS AND PROPERTY RIGHTS OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION JUNE 23, 2005 Serial No. J–109–28 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary ( U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 47–069 PDF WASHINGTON : 2009 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402–0001 VerDate Nov 24 2008 13:05 Feb 18, 2009 Jkt 047069 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 S:\GPO\HEARINGS\47069.TXT SJUD1 PsN: CMORC COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY ARLEN SPECTER, Pennsylvania, Chairman ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah PATRICK J. LEAHY, Vermont CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, Iowa EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts JON KYL, Arizona JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., Delaware MIKE DEWINE, Ohio HERBERT KOHL, Wisconsin JEFF SESSIONS, Alabama DIANNE FEINSTEIN, California LINDSEY O. GRAHAM, South Carolina RUSSELL D. FEINGOLD, Wisconsin JOHN CORNYN, Texas CHARLES E. SCHUMER, New York SAM BROWNBACK, Kansas RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois TOM COBURN, Oklahoma DAVID BROG, Staff Director MICHAEL O’NEILL, Chief Counsel BRUCE A. COHEN, Democratic Chief Counsel and Staff Director SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION, CIVIL RIGHTS AND PROPERTY RIGHTS SAM BROWNBACK, Kansas, Chairman ARLEN SPECTER, Pennsylvania RUSSELL D. FEINGOLD, Wisconsin LINDSEY O. GRAHAM, South Carolina EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts JOHN CORNYN, Texas DIANNE FEINSTEIN, California TOM COBURN, Oklahoma RICHARD J. -
House Concurrent Resolution No. 1004 a Concurrent
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 1004 A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION, Addressed to the United States Supreme Court setting forth certain facts and expressly enumerating the grievances of the People of the State of South Dakota, through their elected representatives, with that Court's decision in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), and its progeny and calling for that Court to now protect the intrinsic, natural, fundamental rights of the children of our State and nation and the intrinsic, natural, fundamental rights of their pregnant mothers in their relationship with their children, and the mothers' health by reconsidering and overturning the court's decision in Roe. WHEREAS, we observe that ours was the first great sovereign nation in all of history founded on the precept of Equal Rights and Equal Respect for all human persons subject to its jurisdiction; that our Declaration of Independence declared that all human beings are endowed by their Creator with intrinsic and inalienable rights by virtue of their existence and humanity; that it was the promise of our young nation, that its newly formed government would protect its people against the deprivation of their natural, intrinsic and inalienable rights, which instilled the admiration of the whole world; and that promise to forever strive to further the realization of those ideals inspired the peoples of each of our Sovereign States, including the People of the State of South Dakota, to accept and adopt the Constitution of the United States as their own; and WHEREAS, in 1868, our young nation -
Abortion Restrictions Under Casey/Carhart
TH AL LAW JORAL REVA B. SIEGEL Dignity and the Politics of Protection: Abortion Restrictions Under Casey/Carhart ABSTRACT. This essay on the law and politics of abortion analyzes the constitutional principles governing new challenges to Roe. The essay situates the Court's recent decision in Gonzales v. Carhartin debates of the antiabortion movement over the reach and rationale of statutes designed to overturn Roe exploring strategic considerations that lead advocates to favor incremental restrictions over bans, and to supplement fetal-protective justifications with woman- protective justifications for regulating abortion. The essay argues that a multi-faceted commitment to dignity links Carhartand the Casey decision on which it centrally relies. Dignity is a value that bridges communities divided in the abortion debate, as well as diverse bodies of constitutional and human rights law. Carhartinvokes dignity as a reason for regulating abortion, while Casey invokes dignity as a reason for protecting women's abortion decisions from government regulation. This dignity-based analysis of Casey/Carhartoffers principles for determining the constitutionality of woman-protective abortion restrictions that are grounded in a large body of substantive due process and equal protection case law. Protecting women can violate women's dignity if protection is based on stereotypical assumptions about women's capacities and women's roles, as many of the new woman-protective abortion restrictions are. Like old forms of gender paternalism, the new forms of gender paternalism remedy harm to women through the control of women. The new woman-protective abortion restrictions do not provide women in need what they need: they do not alleviate the social conditions that contribute to unwanted pregnancies, nor do they provide social resources to help women who choose to end pregnancies they otherwise might bring to term. -
Legal History of Abortion
Abortion in the United States: A Brief Legal History Dr. J. Alan Branch Introductory Matter Abortion in Antiquity Six years prior to the Roe decision, all fifty states had laws prohibiting abortion except to save the life of the mother.1 This reflected a legal tradition extending back to English Common Law which continued through the founding of the United States and the first two centuries of American law. From the Colonial era through the mid-nineteenth century, abortion was generally associated with out-of-wedlock pregnancies.2 Even in antiquity, abortion was not an unfamiliar practice. The noted physician Soranus of Ephesus was a Greek physician who flourished in the early Second Century AD. In his Gynecology, Soranus described procedures for abortion including energetic exercise, being shaken by means of draught animals, vigorous leaping, and carrying heavy items. He also describes various oils and concoctions which could be inserted vaginally for abortive purposes as well as abortifacient drugs composes of plant mixtures. Soranus even suggests by intentionally bleeding the woman, saying, “A pregnant woman if bled miscarries.” Yet, he is opposed to “separating the embryo by means of something sharp edged for 1 Norm Geisler and Francis Beckwith, Matters of Life and Death (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1991), 46. 2 One of the earliest, if not the earliest, books to address the legality of abortion is found in the Decretum Gratiani, a legal textbook written by Gratian, a canon lawyer from Bologna who flourished in the Twelfth Century. Gratian was the first person to compile all of the church’s laws into a single book, which he finished around 1139 AD before being made bishop of Tuscany where he died in 1145.