Abortion: The Year In Review

December, 1990

They must think that God reads law-books and that women don't.Following the Supreme Court decision on abortion in 1989—a ruling that undermined a woman's right to a safe, medical abortion—Right-to-Lifers around the country fell over themselves in a rush to win the anti-abortion sweepstakes. Who could be the cleverest and cruelest? Who could draft a law that would go all the way to the Supreme Court, where it would force the final undoing of Roe vs. Wade? By one count, 40 states considered 350 ab...

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