Abortive Reasons and Obscene Standards: Comment on the Abortion and Obscenity Cases
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1974
Authors
Loewy, Arnold H.
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Abstract
In this article, Professor Loewy discusses the doctrinal support (or lack thereof) for the seminal abortion and obscenity cases arising from the 1972 term of the Supreme Court. He discusses the reasoning and arguments used by the Court in cases such as Roe v. Wade, Doe v. Bolton, Miller v. California, Roth v. United States, and others, pointing out the strengths and weaknesses in the doctrinal bases for each argument. He concludes by discussing the contradictory rights established by these two lines of cases.
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Supreme Court, Constitutional law, Obscenity, Reproductive rights, First Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Right of privacy
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52 N.C. L. Rev. 223