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Article

Publication Date

2007

ISSN

0028-4793

Publisher

Massachusetts Medical Society

Language

en-US

Abstract

Since the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 abortion-rights decision in Roe v. Wade, the law has taken the lead in defining the contours of the continuing public debate over reproductive liberty. Ever since then, abortion opponents have tried to make abortion more burdensome by limiting Roe, and these continuing challenges are the reason there have been so many Supreme Court decisions about abortion, including the Court's 1992 decision in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, which unexpectedly reaffirmed the core of Roe.

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From The New England Journal of Medicine, George J. Annas, The Supreme Court and Abortion Rights, Volume 356, Page 2201 Copyright ©(2007) Massachusetts Medical Society. Reprinted with permission.

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