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Rethinking Abortion

Equal Choice, the Constitution, and Reproductive Politics

Mark Graber

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Beschreibung

Mark Graber looks at the history of abortion law in action to argue that the only defensible, constitutional approach to the issue is to afford all women equal choice--abortion should remain legal or bans should be strictly enforced. Steering away from metaphysical critiques of privacy, Graber compares the philosophical, constitutional, and democratic merits of the two systems of abortion regulation witnessed in the twentieth century: pre-Roe v. Wade statutory prohibitions on abortion and Roe's ban on significant state interference with the market for safe abortion services. He demonstrates that before Roe, pro-life measures were selectively and erratically administered, thereby subverting our constitutional commitment to equal justice. Claiming that these measures would be similarly administered if reinstated, the author seeks to increase support for keeping abortion legal, even among those who have reservations about its morality.


Abortion should remain legal, Graber argues, because statutory bans on abortion have a history of being enforced in ways that intentionally discriminate against poor persons and persons of color. In the years before Roe, the same law enforcement officials who routinely ignored and sometimes assisted those physicians seeking to terminate pregnancies for their private patients too often prevented competent abortionists from offering the same services to the general public. This double standard violated the fundamental human and constitutional right of equal justice under law, a right that remains a major concern of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Judicial deference, Affirmative action, Due Process Clause, Judicial activism, Pathology, Norma McCorvey, Abortion law, Dred Scott v. Sandford, Coroner, Indication (medicine), Black school, Furman v. Georgia, Mann Act, Abortion-rights movements, Just society, Brown v. Board of Education, Poor person, Anti-abortion movements, Phyllis Schlafly, Natural family planning, Andrea Dworkin, Payne v. Tennessee, Law enforcement, Police state, American Life League, John Doe, Hyde Amendment, Legalization, Abortion in Georgia (U.S. state), Mortal sin, Impunity, Incest, Necessity, Abortion debate, National Right to Life Committee, Abortion in the United States, Illegal abortion, Birth control, Civil Rights Act of 1991, Harris v. McRae, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, McCleskey v. Kemp, Pacifism, Abortion, Popular sovereignty, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Marsh v. Alabama, Freedom of speech, Disparate impact, Oppression, Equal Rights Amendment, Freedom of Choice Act, Executive privilege, Dan Quayle, Liberal elite, Crime, Culture war, Bernard Nathanson, Henry David Thoreau, Premarital sex, Barefoot v. Estelle, Curettage, Infanticide, Dilation and curettage, Maternal death, Medicaid, Family planning, Impediment (canon law), City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, Operation Rescue (Kansas)