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Previous Volume 339:279-283 July 23, 1998 Number 4

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The political debate over abortion during the past 25 years has shifted among various dichotomous views of the world: life versus choice, fetus versus woman, fetus versus baby, constitutional right versus states' rights, government versus physician, physician and patient versus state legislature. Hundreds of statutes and almost two dozen Supreme Court decisions on abortion later, the core aspects of Roe v. Wade,¹ the most controversial health-related decision by the Court ever, remain substantially the same as they were in 1973. Attempts to overturn Roe in both the courtroom and the legislature have failed. Pregnant women still have a constitutional right . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Roe and Casey

Partial-Birth Abortion in Congress

Medical Practice and Medical Politics

Government Regulation of Medical Procedures

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