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Article: Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey
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PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA V. CASEY
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA V. CASEY,
505 U.S 833 (1992), is best known for what it did not do
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overrule Roe v. Wade (1973). By 1992 five associate justices had been appointed to the Supreme Court by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, both of whom pledged to select judges committed to overturning
Roe,
which had legalized abortion. Reagan had named William Rehnquist, one of the original dissenters in
roe
as chief justice in 1986.
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
(1989) and
Rust v. Sullivan
(1991) had upheld laws limiting access to abortion and seemed indicators of doctrinal shifts. ...