Abortion: The Supreme Court Decisions, 1965-2007Ian Shapiro Updated to include the 2007 decision Gonzales v. Carhart, this volume provides all of the major Supreme Court decisions on abortion--as well as many majority, dissenting, and plurality opinions--carefully edited for use in undergraduate and graduate courses in a variety of disciplines. In his introductory essay, Shapiro sets these cases in political, historical, and philosophical context, and gives the reader a sense of what the main issues in the constitutional law of abortion are likely to be in the future. |
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Abortion (Third Edition): The Supreme Court Decisions, 1965-2007 Ian Shapiro No preview available - 2007 |
Abortion: The Supreme Court Decisions Ian Shapiro,United States. Supreme Court No preview available - 1995 |
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