Abortion under state constitutions
Subtitle: a state-by-state analysis
By: by Paul Benjamin Linton.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 610
ISBN-13: 9781594606045
Subjects: Abortion -- Law and legislation -- United States -- States; Constitutional law -- United States -- States
Description: "For each State, the author considers possible sources of a right to abortion in the state constitution (privacy, due process of law, equality of rights, equal protection, privileges and immunities, as well as other provisions); state court decisions interpreting those provisions; the relevant state constitutional history; pre-Roe prohibitions of abortion and their interpretation by state courts; post-Roe regulations of abortion; and what rights state law has conferred upon unborn children outside the context of abortion"--Provided by publisher.