Abortion: New Directions for Policy Studies is a book edited by Edward Manier, William Liu, and David Solomon which was published in 1977 by the University of Notre Dame Press. It was based partly on the proceedings of conferences about abortion at Notre Dame in September 1973 and March 1975.[1]
| Editors |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | University of Notre Dame Press |
Publication date | 1977 |
| Publication place | United States |
The book included chapters by Edward Manier, Edmund Pincoffs, Judith Blake, Donald Kummers, Roger Wertheimer, William Liu, and David Solomon.
Background
editRoe v. Wade struck down state laws banning abortion in 1973. Over twenty cases in the following years addressed abortion law in the United States and the court rulings upheld Roe v. Wade. After Roe, abortion became legal throughout the country, but states placed varying regulations on it, from requiring parental involvement in a minor's abortion to restricting late-term abortions.
After the Roe ruling, controversies continued, sometimes passionately. Judith Blake, for example, even before the ruling, predicted a backlash in attitudes about abortion in "Abortion and Public Opinion" (1971).[2] After the ruling, her research indicated a considerable discrepancy between the views of the Court and those of the public at large.[3]
Reviews
editJoseph Boyle, in a 1979 review, praised individual chapters, but noted that the volume had not managed to develop "some sort of normative consensus on abortion." He concluded that, although philosophers and theologians (including Roger Wertheimer and Edmund Pincoffs) had debated important questions such as whether there is any rational basis for deciding whether a zygote, embryo, or fetus must be considered to be a human being, their conclusions were "unlikely to be acceptable to the contesting parties."[4] In a separate review article, Erwin Chemerinsky acknowledged cogent arguments in this volume, but concluded that "Rationalizing the abortion debate requires a comparative analysis of the options and an examination of what approaches were realistically possible for the Court to adopt." [5]
Notes
edit- ^ Manier, Edward (1977). Abortion: New Directions for Policy Studies. Edited by Edward Manier, William Liu, and David Solomon. University of Notre Dame Press.
- ^ Blake, Judith (12 February 1971). "Abortion and Public Opinion: The 1960-1970 Decade". Science. 171 (3971): 540–549. Bibcode:1971Sci...171..540B. doi:10.1126/science.171.3971.540. PMID 5539717. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
- ^ Boyle, Joseph. "Book Review of Abortion: New Directions for Policy Studies, ed. by Edward Manier and others". The Linacre Quarterly.
- ^ Boyle, Joseph. "Book Review of Abortion: New Directions for Policy Studies, ed. by Edward Manier and others". The Linacre Quarterly.
- ^ Chemerinsky, Erwin. "Rationalizing the abortion debate: Legal rhetoric and the abortion controversy" (PDF). Buffalo Law Review.