Abortion: The Supreme Court Decisions, 1965-2007

Updated to include the 2007 decision Gonzales v. Carhart, this volume provides all of the major Supreme Court decisions on abortion -- as well as many majority, dissenting, and plurality opinions -- carefully edited for use in undergraduate and graduate courses in a variety of disciplines. In his introductory essay, Shapiro sets these cases in political, historical, and philosophical context, and gives the reader a sense of what the main issues in the constitutional law of abortion are likely to be in the future.Ian Shapiro is the author of 'Abortion: The Supreme Court Decisions, 1965-2007', published 2008 under ISBN 9780872209046 and ISBN 0872209040.