Book contents
- Diversity Judgments
- Diversity Judgments
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Asian Americans
- Part II African Americans
- Part III Women
- 6 Roe v. Wade (Reproductive Rights)
- 7 United States v. Virginia (Single-Sex Colleges)
- 8 United States v. Morrison (Violence Against Women)
- 9 Kulko v. Superior Court (Child Custody or Support)
- Part IV Latinx
- Part V Native Americans
- Part VI LGBTQ
- Part VII Intersectionality
- Part VIII Outsiders v. Outsiders
- Part IX White Males
- Part X Situational Outsiders
- Index
6 - Roe v. Wade (Reproductive Rights)
from Part III - Women
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2022
- Diversity Judgments
- Diversity Judgments
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Asian Americans
- Part II African Americans
- Part III Women
- 6 Roe v. Wade (Reproductive Rights)
- 7 United States v. Virginia (Single-Sex Colleges)
- 8 United States v. Morrison (Violence Against Women)
- 9 Kulko v. Superior Court (Child Custody or Support)
- Part IV Latinx
- Part V Native Americans
- Part VI LGBTQ
- Part VII Intersectionality
- Part VIII Outsiders v. Outsiders
- Part IX White Males
- Part X Situational Outsiders
- Index
Summary
Abortion was not a crime under Anglo-American common law even with respect to the destruction of a “quick” fetus; that is, a fetus after the sixteenth to the eighteenth week of pregnancy, the period of time in which the movement of the fetus in utero is first recognizable. Gradually, the quickening distinction disappeared as legislatures began to regulate abortions. Missing from this chronology is a sense of the tremendous physical and emotional cost sustained by women who went through a pre-Roe abortion. As many today know little about this excruciating experience, it might be useful to stop here and read about any of the myriad personal experiences women have had obtaining abortions prior to Roe v. Wade.
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- Diversity JudgmentsDemocratizing Judicial Legitimacy, pp. 173 - 194Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022