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Recent Developments in Abortion Law

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Genetics and the Law II

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Abstract

At the First Symposium on Genetics and the Law held in May 1975 there was no paper presented whose sole purpose was to discuss abortion laws. Roe v. Wade 1 and Doe v. Bolton 2 were sufficiently new so that little legislative and judicial action had been taken. Since then there has been an outpouring of both legislative and judicial activity. Legislation has, for the most part, focused on ways to limit the impact of Roe and Doee, while the judiciary has been concerned with assuring that legislation not invade the zone of privacy created by Roe, as well as by previous and subsequent cases. Legislative activity can be described as ingenious at times and lawless at other times. The tension that exists between prochoice and antichoice (or prolife/antilife or proabortion/antiabortion, depending on which side of the issue you stand) factions is amply reflected in the tension between legislatures and the courts. Individual legislators feeling the pressure from well-organized antiabortion groups may vote for legislation they do not personally believe in, or that they know will be struck down in the courts.3 The situation we find is that the prochoice viewpoint is litigated with scant private funds, while the antiabortion point of view is litigated with state funds through attorneys-general offices. Given this, the American Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood, and other groups have amassed a remarkable record of successful litigation in defense of the rights of individuals to make procreative decisions without undue state interference.

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  1. Department of Socio-Medical Sciences and Community Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, 02118, USA

    Leonard H. Glantz

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  1. Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, USA

    Aubrey Milunsky MB.B. Ch., M.R.C.P., D.C.H. (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Director Medical Geneticist) (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Director Medical Geneticist)

  2. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, 02114, USA

    Aubrey Milunsky MB.B. Ch., M.R.C.P., D.C.H. (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Director Medical Geneticist) (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Director Medical Geneticist)

  3. Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, Walthalm, Massachusetts, 02154, USA

    Aubrey Milunsky MB.B. Ch., M.R.C.P., D.C.H. (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Director Medical Geneticist) (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Director Medical Geneticist)

  4. School of Law, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    George J. Annas J.D., M.P.H. (Associate Professor of Law and Medicine) (Associate Professor of Law and Medicine)

  5. School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 02118, USA

    George J. Annas J.D., M.P.H. (Associate Professor of Law and Medicine) (Associate Professor of Law and Medicine)

  6. School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 02118, USA

    George J. Annas J.D., M.P.H. (Associate Professor of Law and Medicine) (Associate Professor of Law and Medicine)

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Glantz, L.H. (1980). Recent Developments in Abortion Law. In: Milunsky, A., Annas, G.J. (eds) Genetics and the Law II. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3078-3_18

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