Greenhouse, Linda, Reva B. Siegal. “Before (and After) Roe V. Wade: New Questions about Backlash.” The Yale Law Journal. 120.8 (2011): 2028-2087. Print.
Linda Greenhouse is a Clinical Lecturer in Law, Knight Distinguished journalist, and a senior research scholar in Law at Yale Law School and Reva B. Siegal is the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School. In this article, the authors talk about the Supreme Court ruling in 1973 on abortion and how things took shape after the ruling. The decision made it possible for pregnant women to get legal abortions from medical practitioners and led to a decrease in pregnancy-related deaths and injury. The authors take the time to view how things were before the court ruling got decided. They consider abortion stands of politicians, catholics, and feminists. They suggest that due to party realignment, the conflict over supreme court ruling got shaped in the following decades. This article is gonna be used mainly as a factual source. The court decision took place, and the reaction of different people were used to write this article.
- “Doctors establishing the American Medical Association (AMA) led a campaign to criminalize abortion, except when necessary to save a pregnant woman’s life.”
- “Just as nineteenth-century advocates for criminalizing access to abortion has appealed to medical authority, so, too, did twentieth-century advocates for liberalizing access to abortion.
