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Roe v. Wade : the untold story of the landmark Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal / Marian Faux.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Cooper Square Press, 2001.Description: xxiii, 370 pages : illustrationsISBN:
  • 9781461661238
  • 1461661234
Other title:
  • Roe versus Wade
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Roe v. Wade.LOC classification:
  • KF228 .F38 2001
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Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction to the New Edition; Part I: The Abortion Controversy; 1: A Meeting; 2: Finding Jane Roe; 3: Two Women in Search of a Case; 4: Awakening a Nation's Conscience; Part II: In the Lower Court; 5: Suing the State; 6: The State Responds; 7: Reform, Dallas Style; 8: The Dallas Hearing; 9: The Dallas Decision; Part III: On Appeal; 10: The Appeals; 11: The Opposition; 12: Renewed Vigor; 13: Preparing for the High Court; 14: Ladies' Day at Court; Part IV: Abortion Politics; 15: Waiting.
16: Deliberations17: Reargument; 18: The Supreme Court Decision; 19: Reaction; Epilogue; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.
Review: "From the back-alley clinics of illegal abortionists to the behind-the-scene deliberations of the Supreme Court justices, Roe v. Wade is a riveting history of the thorniest ethical debate ever brought before the Supreme Court. Marian Faux tells the full story behind the struggle of two lawyers, Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee, recently appointed to the bar, and Norma McCorvey, their unwed, unemployed, and pregnant client, to challenge the state on one of the most contentious issues of the modern age. Since 1973, when Roe v. Wade legalized abortion, activists on both sides have contested the controversial ruling with increasing militancyIn the last ten years, abortion extremists have killed three physicians and three clinic employees, injured many others, and bombed eight clinics that provide abortions.""In this updated edition Faux details recent challenges and erosions to the decision - including parental consent laws and bans on partial-birth abortions - and illuminates how the ruling has impacted public attitudes and policy. Dominating health care funding, religious ideologies, and party platforms, Roe v. Wade is a revolutionary decision that remains besieged and defended in equal measure, an issue in perpetual motion with little hope for either a decisive victory or a peaceful compromise. Faux's book is the definitive history, thoroughly balanced, and sensitively attuned to the complexity of our country's most incendiary issue."--Jacket
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Originally published: New York : McMillan, 1988. With new introduction and six textual emendations.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-360) and index.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction to the New Edition; Part I: The Abortion Controversy; 1: A Meeting; 2: Finding Jane Roe; 3: Two Women in Search of a Case; 4: Awakening a Nation's Conscience; Part II: In the Lower Court; 5: Suing the State; 6: The State Responds; 7: Reform, Dallas Style; 8: The Dallas Hearing; 9: The Dallas Decision; Part III: On Appeal; 10: The Appeals; 11: The Opposition; 12: Renewed Vigor; 13: Preparing for the High Court; 14: Ladies' Day at Court; Part IV: Abortion Politics; 15: Waiting.

16: Deliberations17: Reargument; 18: The Supreme Court Decision; 19: Reaction; Epilogue; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.

"From the back-alley clinics of illegal abortionists to the behind-the-scene deliberations of the Supreme Court justices, Roe v. Wade is a riveting history of the thorniest ethical debate ever brought before the Supreme Court. Marian Faux tells the full story behind the struggle of two lawyers, Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee, recently appointed to the bar, and Norma McCorvey, their unwed, unemployed, and pregnant client, to challenge the state on one of the most contentious issues of the modern age. Since 1973, when Roe v. Wade legalized abortion, activists on both sides have contested the controversial ruling with increasing militancy

In the last ten years, abortion extremists have killed three physicians and three clinic employees, injured many others, and bombed eight clinics that provide abortions."

"In this updated edition Faux details recent challenges and erosions to the decision - including parental consent laws and bans on partial-birth abortions - and illuminates how the ruling has impacted public attitudes and policy. Dominating health care funding, religious ideologies, and party platforms, Roe v. Wade is a revolutionary decision that remains besieged and defended in equal measure, an issue in perpetual motion with little hope for either a decisive victory or a peaceful compromise. Faux's book is the definitive history, thoroughly balanced, and sensitively attuned to the complexity of our country's most incendiary issue."--Jacket

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