Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the ConstitutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abortion
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
Scope and Myths of Roe V. Wade
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the ConstitutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abortion
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
Scope and Myths of Roe V. Wade, Serial No. 109-84, Vol. 2, March 2, 2006, 109-2 Hearing, *
Author: Roe V. Wade
Author: N. E. H. HullPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This up-to-date history of Roe v. Wade covers the complete social and legal context of the case that remains the touchstone for America's culture wars.
Landmark Briefs and Arguments of the Supreme Court of the United States
Author: Philip B. KurlandPublisher:
ISBN: 9781556551727
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Family Roe: An American Story
Author: Joshua PragerPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393247724
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 A New York Times Notable Book of 2021 One of TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2021 "The scope is sweeping, the writing is beautiful. It’s an epic story worthy of the impact this one case has had on the American psyche." —Michel Martin, NPR "Stupendous…. If you want to understand Roe more deeply before the coming decision, read it." —Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal A masterpiece of reporting on the Supreme Court’s most divisive case, Roe v. Wade, and the unknown lives at its heart. Despite her famous pseudonym, “Jane Roe,” no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947–2017), whose unwanted pregnancy in 1969 opened a great fracture in American life. Journalist Joshua Prager spent hundreds of hours with Norma, discovered her personal papers—a previously unseen trove—and witnessed her final moments. The Family Roe presents her life in full. Propelled by the crosscurrents of sex and religion, gender and class, it is a life that tells the story of abortion in America. Prager begins that story on the banks of Louisiana’s Atchafalaya River where Norma was born, and where unplanned pregnancies upended generations of her forebears. A pregnancy then upended Norma’s life too, and the Dallas waitress became Jane Roe. Drawing on a decade of research, Prager reveals the woman behind the pseudonym, writing in novelistic detail of her unknown life from her time as a sex worker in Dallas, to her private thoughts on family and abortion, to her dealings with feminist and Christian leaders, to the three daughters she placed for adoption. Prager found those women, including the youngest—Baby Roe—now fifty years old. She shares her story in The Family Roe for the first time, from her tortured interactions with her birth mother, to her emotional first meeting with her sisters, to the burden that was uniquely hers from conception. The Family Roe abounds in such revelations—not only about Norma and her children but about the broader “family” connected to the case. Prager tells the stories of activists and bystanders alike whose lives intertwined with Roe. In particular, he introduces three figures as important as they are unknown: feminist lawyer Linda Coffee, who filed the original Texas lawsuit yet now lives in obscurity; Curtis Boyd, a former fundamentalist Christian, today a leading provider of third-trimester abortions; and Mildred Jefferson, the first black female Harvard Medical School graduate, who became a pro-life leader with great secrets. An epic work spanning fifty years of American history, The Family Roe will change the way you think about our enduring American divide: the right to choose or the right to life.
Report on the Activities of the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives During the One Hundred Ninth Congress
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Report on The Activities of The Committee on The Judiciary of The House of Representatives, January 2, 2007, 109-2 House Report No. 109-749
Author: Won by Love
Author: Norma McCorveyPublisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 1418561797
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In Roe v. Wade, perhaps the most controversial United States Supreme Court decision, Norma McCorvey fought for and won the right to secure an abortion. Though she never had an abortion, under the pseudonym "Jane Roe," Norma reluctantly became the poster child for the pro-choice movement. Over the next two decades, Norma experienced the grief and despair of millions of women who chose to abort their babies; she witnessed the destruction of thousands of human lives in abortion clinics where she worked; and the "champion" of the pro-choice movement was soon being crushed by the weight of so much pain, so much death, and so many ill-considered "choices." Finally, she began to break. She found out that the real choice she had been burdened with was not about abortion but about eternal life. It was a choice that would shock the world and change Norma's life forever.
Before Roe V. Wade
Author: Reva B. SiegelPublisher:
ISBN: 9780615648217
Category : Abortion
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
"As the landmark Roe v. Wade decision reaches its 40th anniversary, abortion remains a polarizing topic on America's legal and political landscape. Blending history, culture, and law, Before Roe v. Wade eplores the roots of the conflict, recovering through original documents and first-hand accounts the voices on both sides that helped shape the climate in which the Supreme Court ruled. Originally published in 2010, this new edition includes a new Afterword that explores what the history of conflict before Roe teaches us about the abortion conflict we live with today. Examining the role of social movements and political parties, the authors cast new light on a pivotal chapter in American history and suggest how Roe v. Wade, the case, because Roe v. Wade, the symbol. "--Cover, p. 4.
A History of the Committee on the Judiciary, 1813-2006
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description