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Article: My body, my consent: securing the constitutional right to abortion funding.(symposium on abortion)
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- Albany Law Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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INTRODUCTION
When the Supreme Court established the constitutional right to choose to have an abortion in Roe v. Wade,(1) it was a breakthrough for women's reproductive rights.(2) The Court's ruling that the due process right to privacy was "broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy" without interference from the state(3) struck down numerous state laws that had severely limited procurement of an abortion.(4) The resilience of Roe in the ensuing decades has been sufficient to retain the constitutional right to choose an abortion. However, the due process basis used by the Court in Roe has been completely inadequate for ...