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Abuse of discretion : the inside story of Roe v. Wade / Clarke D. Forsythe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Forsythe, Clarke D., 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abortion--Government policy--United States.
- Abortion.
- Abortion--Law and legislation--United States.
- Political questions and judicial power--United States.
- Political questions and judicial power.
- Trials (Abortion)--United States.
- Trials (Abortion).
- Roe, Jane, 1947-2017--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Roe, Jane.
- Wade, Henry--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Wade, Henry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (497 p.)
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Encounter Books, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Based on 20 years of research, including an examination of the papers of eight of the nine Justices who voted in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, Abuse of Discretion is a critical review of the behind-the-scenes deliberations that went into the Supreme Court's abortion decisions and how the mistakes made by the Justices in 1971-1973 have led to the turmoil we see today in legislation, politics, and public health. The first half of the book looks at the mistakes made by the Justices, based on the case files, the oral arguments, and the Justices' papers. The second half of the book critically ex
- Contents:
- The road to Roe : inside the Supreme Court
- The road to Roe : taking abortion into the courts
- The red flags the justices ignored : the embarrassing arguments in the abortion cases
- The abrupt expansion to viability (and beyond)
- The medical myth that drove the outcome in Roe (and its continuing impact)
- The American experience the justices overlooked
- The public health vacuum the justices created
- Detrimental reliance : the international data on the risks to women
- The costs of schizophrenia
- The public is not "polarized" over abortion : what most Americans can agree on
- Has Roe solved the problems it was supposed to solve for women?
- What will happen on the day after Roe?
- Notes:
- "New revelations from the justices' papers"--Jacket.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-468) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781594036934
- 1594036934
- OCLC:
- 857800136
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