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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2021

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References

1 127 S.Ct. 1610 (2007).

2 18 U.S.C. § 1531 (2000 ed., Supp. IV).

3 Gonzales, 127 S.Ct. at 1624.

4 Id. at 1620.

5 Id. at 1621.

6 Id.

7 Id. at 1641 n.1 (Ginsburg, J. dissenting).

8 Id. at 1621.

9 Gonzales, 127 S.Ct. at 1623.

10 Stenburg v. Carhart, 530 U.S. 914 (2000).

11 Id.

12 18 U.S.C. § 1531 (2000 ed., Supp. IV).

13 Id.

14 Gonzales, 127 S.Ct. at 1623-24.

15 413 F.3d 791 (8th Cir. 2005).

16 435 F.3d 1163 (9th Cir. 2006).

17 Gonzales, 127 S.Ct. at 1619-20.

18 505 U.S. 833 (1992).

19 Id. at 846.

20 Id. at 874.

21 Id.

22 Gonzales, 127 S.Ct. at 1637.

23 Id.

24 Id. at 1636.

25 Id. at 1635-36.

26 Id. at 1637.

27 Id. at 1639.

28 Id.

29 Id.

30 Id.

31 Id. at 1641.

32 410 U.S. 113 (1973).

33 Gonzales, 127 S.Ct. at 1641.

34 Id. at 1638 (quoting Carhart v. Stenberg, 530 U.S. 914, 938 (2000)).

35 Id. at 1644-47.

36 Id. at 1650.

37 Id. at 1627.

38 Id.

39 Id. at 1650.

40 Id. at 1651.

41 Id.

42 R. Alta Charo, J.D., Editorial, The Partial Death of Abortion Rights, N. Eng. J. Med., April 23, 2007, http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMp078055; Michael F. Greene, M.D., Editorial, The Intimidation of American Physicians – Banning Partial-Birth Abortion, N. Eng. J. Med., April 23, 2007, http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMp078084; Jeffery M. Drazen, M.D., Editorial, Government in Medicine, N. Eng. J. Med., April 23, 2007, http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMe078086.

43 R. Alta Charo, J.D., Editorial, The Partial Death of Abortion Rights, N. Eng. J. Med. at 3, April 23, 2007, http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMp078055.

44 Id.

45 Michael F. Greene, M.D., Editorial, The Intimidation of American Physicians – Banning Partial-Birth Abortion, N. Eng. J. Med. at 2, April 23, 2007, http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMp078084.

46 George J. Annas, J.D., M.P.H, The Supreme Court and Abortion Rights, N. Eng. J. Med. at 1, May 2, 2007, http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMhle072595.

47 Id. at 6.

1 479 F.3d 271 (3rd. Cir. 2006).

2 28 U.S.C. § 2674 (2000).

3 Id.

4 DeJesus, 479 F.3d at 274 (3rd. Cir. 2006).

5 Id. at 274-75.

6 Id.

7 Id.

8 Id.

9 Id. at 275 n.3.

10 Id.

11 Id. at 276.

12 Id. at 276-77.

13 Id. at 276.

14 Id. at 277.

15 Id.

16 Id.

17 Id. at 278.

18 Id.

19 Id.

20 Id.

21 Id.

22 Id. at 279.

23 Id.

24 Id.

25 Id.

26 Id. at 281.

27 Id. at 280 (citing Emerich v. Philadelphia Ctr. for Human Dev., Inc., 720 A.2d 1032 (Pa. 1998)).

28 Id.

29 Id. at 282 (citing 50 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 7114(a)).

30 Id.

31 Id. at 286.

32 Id.

33 Id. at 287.

34 Id.

35 Id. at 287.

36 Id. at 286.

37 Id. at 288.

38 Id. at 282 (citing Goryeb v. Pa. Dep't of Pub. Welfare, 575 A.2d 545 (Pa. 1990)).

1 479 F.3d 936 (8th Cir. 2007).

2 Id. at 942.

3 Id. at 944-45.

4 Id. at 938.

5 Id.

6 Id.

7 Id.

8 Id.

9 42 U.S.C. § 2000(e)(2)(a)(1) (2000).

10 429 U.S. 125, 145-46 (1976).

11 Union Pac., 479 F.3d at 939-40.

12 42 U.S.C. § 2000(e)(k) (2000).

13 Standridge v. Union Pac. R.R. Co., 378 F. Supp. 2d 1139, 1143 (D. Neb. 2005).

14 Id. at 1149.

15 Union Pac., 479 F.3d at 945.

16 95 F.3d 674, 679 (8th Cir. 1996).

17 Union Pac., 479 F.3d at 941 (citing Krauel, 95 F.3d at 679).

18 Id.

19 Id. at 942.

20 Id.

21 Id.

22 Id. at 943-44.

23 Id. at 944.

24 Union Pac., 378 F. Supp. 2d at 1147 n.20.

25 Id. at 1148.

26 Id. at 1149.

27 Union Pac., 479 F.3d at 944.

28 Id.

29 Id.

30 Id. at 944-45.

31 Id. at 945.

32 499 U.S. 187 (1991).

33 Union Pac., 479 F.3d at 946 (Bye, J., dissenting) (quoting Johnson Controls, 499 U.S. at 204).

34 Union Pac., 479 F.3d at 947 (Bye, J., dissenting).

35 Id. at 945 (Bye, J., dissenting).

36 Id.

37 Id. at 948 (Bye, J., dissenting).

38 Id. at 948-949 (Bye, J., dissenting).

39 Id.

40 Id. at 949 (Bye, J., dissenting).

41 Louise Esola, Birth Control Ruling Won't Curb Cover, Bus. Ins., Mar. 26, 2007, at 1.

42 Id.

43 Id.

44 Id.

45 Id.

46 Id.

47 Id.

48 Id.