Liberty and Sexuality The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe vs. Wade

Name: Liberty and Sexuality The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe vs. Wade
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ISBN: 9780025427556

ISBN-10: 0025427555

ISBN-13: 9780025427556

Edition: 1994

Authors: David J. Garrow

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"Roe v. Wade's 1973 constitutional guarantee of a woman's right to choose abortion emerged from a long and remarkable battle to extend Americans' individual liberties to include a fundamental right to sexual privacy. Only in 1965 had the Supreme Court first begun to protect such intimate personal freedoms by finally invalidating an archaic Connecticut criminal law that had prohibited the use of birth control." "Despite the landmark importance of this crucial struggle, not until now has this legal revolution received the comprehensive treatment it deserves." "Roe v. Wade's origins lie not in the U.S. Supreme Court's dramatic internal deliberations of 1971-72 or even in the grassroots women's… movement of the late 1960s but, instead, in the 1920s and 1930s efforts to win repeal of the Connecticut birth control law. Those initial attempts failed, but twenty years later Connecticut Planned Parenthood director Estelle Trebert Griswold launched a new crusade against the statute. After one appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court lost by the narrowest of margins in 1961, Griswold and a medical colleague were convicted for providing birth control services in open defiance of the law. When their appeal finally reached the Supreme Court, the justices held that such a fundamental constitutional right to privacy did indeed exist." "That resounding Supreme Court decision in Griswold v. Connecticut opened a previously unimagined constitutional door: the opportunity to argue that a woman's access to a safe, legal abortion was a fundamental individual right. In 1969, the first abortion rights case was filed in federal court in New York, soon followed by others, including Roe v. Wade in Texas and Doe v. Bolton in Georgia. After those two challenges were upheld by local federal courts, the U.S. Supreme Court - which so far had confronted the abortion issue on only one occasion - agreed to review both decisions." "The comprehensive, once-secret files of former Justices William J. Brennan, William O. Douglas, and Thurgood Marshall now allow for the first fully documented and comprehensive account of the Court's dramatic internal debates. Likewise, those papers also offer an inside-the-court look at the post-Roe abortion cases that have highlighted America's emotion-ridden battles over abortion for two full decades since 1973." "However, despite the Supreme Court's 1992 reaffirmation of Roe in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Court so far has refused to acknowledge that the right to privacy likewise shields gay Americans from governmental intrusion into their personal lives." "Based upon hundreds of interviews and nationwide archival sources, Liberty and Sexuality provides a compelling account of the remarkable women and men who made the right to privacy a meaningful part of America's constitutional heritage."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 1/24/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 800
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 2.992
Language: English




The Waterbury Origins of Roe v. Wade



No Further Service: Connecticut's Struggle for the Legalization of Birth Control, 1940-1953



One Vote Shy: Estelle Griswold, Fowler Harper, and the U.S. Supreme Court, 1954-1961



Creating the Right to Privacy: Estelle Griswold and the U.S. Supreme Court, 1961-1965



Lonely Voices: Abortion Reformers and the Origins of Change, 1933-1967



From Reform to Repeal: The Right to Abortion, 1967-1969



Into the Courts: Roe, Doe, and the Right to Abortion, 1969-1971



The Right to Abortion and the U.S. Supreme Court, 1971-1973



Liberty and Sexuality Since Roe v. Wade


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index