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Does the Constitution permit a woman to choose to have an abortion? In Roe v. Wade 1 the Supreme Court concluded that the Constitution does protect a woman’s right to make this choice.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., The Common Law (Boston: Little, Brown, 1881), 1.
Sue Davis, Corwin and Peltason’s Understanding the Constitution, 17th edition (Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2008), 239.
David M. O’Brien, Storm Center: The Supreme Court in American Politics, 7th edition (New York: WW Norton and Co., 2005), 42.
Sue Davis, Corwin and Peltason’s Understanding the Constitution, 17th edition (Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2008), 85. The eighth judge was removed in the fall of 2010.
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Dahlin, D.C. (2012). Who Interprets?. In: We the People. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137309396_2
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