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Federal Court Points Way to Protecting Women’s Rights By Overturning Roe New Facts Must Be Backed by New Legislative Effort The efforts of Norma McCorvey, the “Roe” of the 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortions, to have that landmark decision reversed has taken two steps forward and one step back with the recent […]
Concurring Opinion of Judge Edith H. Jones McCorvey v. Hill, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Sept. 14, 2004 Editor’s Note: references and footnotes have been omitted. I agree that Ms. McCorvey’s Rule 60(b) case is now moot. A judicial decision in her favor cannot turn back Texas’s legislative clock to reinstate the laws, no longer […]
News Briefs Court Blocks Florida Law Requiring Abortionists to Give Women Information on Risks A federal appeals court has overturned a Florida law requiring abortionists to give women information about the risks of abortion, ruling that it imposes “burdens upon the pregnant woman which improperly intrude upon the exercise of her choice between abortion and […]
Survey: Most Americans Think Abortion Hurts Women New Nationwide Wirthlin Poll Confirms Elliot Institute Findings A new, nationwide Wirthlin poll has found that a significant majority of Americans believe that abortion is “almost always bad” for women, echoing an earlier Elliot Institute poll that found that the majority of Americans believe abortion generally makes women’s […]
Women Who Abort Experience More Anxiety New Elliot Institute Study Compares Women With Unintended First Pregnancies Women who abort unintended pregnancies are more likely to experience subsequent problems with anxiety compared to women who deliver their unintended pregnancies, according to a new Elliot Institute study published in the latest edition of the prestigious Journal of […]