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Post a comment on this essay Read other users' comments Print this essay New Essays | Popular Essays | Submit an Essay Index: Social Issues: Abortion Abortion In Roe et al. v. Wade District Attorney of Dallas County (1973), one of the most controversial cases in recent history, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down all state laws that limit a woman's right to an abortion during the first three months of pregnancy. Justices Rehnquist and White dissented. …

…the states might regulate or even prohibit abortions subject to appropriate medical judgment. The decision aroused nationwide controversy. The Court has several times approved states' procedural restrictions, but in 1992 it reaffirmed Roe's basic rule. Bibliography: Faux, M., Roe vs. Wade (1989) Garrow, David J., Liberty and Bibliography Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade (1994) Krason, Stephen M., Abortion: Politics, Morality, and the Constitution (1984) Rubin, Eva, Abortion, Politics, and the Courts (1982; repr. 1987).