Linda Greenhouse on When the Republican Party Was the Party of Reproductive Choice
Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady
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The Legal Academy Hated Row
In 19 65, griswold against connecticut found a right to contraception and founded an understanding of the due process guarantee of the fourteenth amendment. The vulnerability of ro came from, i have to say, on the legal academy, which was 99 point 99 % mail in those days. There were no women doing constituto law. Why did they hate row? It's not that they hated the right to abortion. Many of them proclaimed themselves as being pro choice. They were afraid that what the court was opening the door to was a kind of re enactment of an earlier era of constitutional law known as the lachner era. A professor named john hard eeley famously wrote an
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