LEGAL 397P Lecture Notes - Rational Basis Review, Therapeutic Abortion, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution

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19 May 2014
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Exam in 2 weeks, review next week (subject matter is primarily on what we are learning now, not previously. Casey case is the precedent reasoning in roe v. wade. Issues surrounding abortion for the past 200 years. Trying to funnel all these different attributes of the argument into a decision. Justice blackmon second paragraph of his majority opinion. Control over women"s sexuality and decisions concerning their bodies. Texas abortion statute- prohibits all abortions unless the pregnancy significantly threatens the life and wellbeing of the mother. Dr. seeking protection from the law because he has been performing abortions illegally. How closely the state can scrutinize a state law to say it violates a constitutional law. Strict scrutiny: classification, looking for rational basis for the state law. Page 6 quote from 1992 casey v. planned parenthood follow up roe v. wade. It"s not all about sex, it about the environment of personal relationships.

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