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Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present, and Future of a Constitutional Right to Abortion

Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present, and Future of a Constitutional Right to Abortion

Author: Lee C. Bollinger; Geoffrey Stone
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197760352

Published In: July 2024
Format: Hardback
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Paperback Edition ISBN: 9780197760369

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With this volume, Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present and Future of a Constitutional Right of Abortion, we confront the remarkable beginning and end—once again, after a half-century-of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, shockingly overruled by the Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. The goal of this book is to bring together some of our nation's leading constitutional scholars, historians, philosophers, and medical experts to share their views on whether there should be a constitutional right to abortion and what the consequences of Dobbs might be.

What makes this subject unique is how it intersects with our own lives, since both Bollinger and Stone were law clerks at the Supreme Court in the year that Roe was decided (1973)—Stone for Justice William Brennan and Bollinger for Chief Justice Warren Burger. During the Court's 1972 Term, when Roe was decided, the Court was in a state of flux. President Nixon had just appointed four Justices to the Court—Burger, Blackmun, Powell, and Rehnquist. The era of the Warren Court was clearly over. In those days, the Justices were non-partisan, often joined opinions across the political/ideological spectrum, and approached cases with an open mind. That in large part explains why the Court could reach the decision it did in Roe, with five of the six Republican-appointed Justices and two of the three Democratic-appointed Justices in the majority, and one Republican-appointed justice (Rehnquist) and one Democratic-appointed justice (White) in dissent. It was a different Court and a different era.

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Dialogue

Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone

Part One: The Supreme Court: Roe v. Dobbs

1. Liberal Critics of Roe

David A. Strauss

2. Equality Emerges as a Ground for Abortion Rights in and After Dobbs

Cary Franklin & Reva Siegel

Part Two Close Readings of Roe

3. Why Was Roe v. Wade Wrong?

Jonathan Mitchell