 | Marshall L. DeRosa - Law - 226 pages
...therefore, the State has a compelling interest in protecting that life from and after conception. We need not resolve the difficult question of when life...knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer.26 Such disclaimers notwithstanding, Justice Blackmun invests a significant portion of his reasoning... | |
 | Michael J. Sandel - History - 1998 - 436 pages
...that life from and after conception."41 The Court then claimed to be neutral on that question: "We need not resolve the difficult question of when life...are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary ... is not in a position to speculate as to the answer." It then noted "the wide divergence of thinking... | |
 | Andrea Tone - Social Science - 1997 - 278 pages
...therefore, the State has a compelling interest in protecting that life from and after conception. We need not resolve the difficult question of when life...is not in a position to speculate as to the answer. . . . In view of all this, we do not agree that, by adopting one theory of life, Texas may override... | |
 | Robyn R. Warhol, Diane Price Herndl - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 1238 pages
...question of the nature and boundaries of human life. As Justice Blackmun puts it in Roe vs. Wade: "We need not resolve the difficult question of when life...is not in a position to speculate as to the answer" [27]. In the case of Roe t:y. Wade, the legality of abortion is derived from the pregnant couple's... | |
 | Lori Gruen, George E. Panichas - Law - 1997 - 478 pages
...therefore, the State has a compelling interest in protecting that life from and after conception. We need not resolve the difficult question of when life...is not in a position to speculate as to the answer. . . In view of all this, we do not agree that, by adopting one theory of life, Texas may override the... | |
 | Judith Wagner DeCew - Law - 1997 - 228 pages
...Life Bills that have been submitted as attempts to overturn the Roe decision. Blackmun argued, "We need not resolve the difficult question of when life...knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer."13 Even if at that point in the development of man's knowledge, namely 1973, such a determination... | |
 | Dorothy E. McBride - Law - 1997 - 416 pages
.../ am Roe (New York: HarperCollins) appeared in 1994. 10. The Court refused to determine when human life begins: "When those trained in the respective...position to speculate as to the answer" (Roe v. Wade, p. 154). 1 1. The companion case, Doe v. Bolton,4lQ US 179 (1973), invalidated ALIinspired statutes.... | |
 | Valerie Hartouni - Medical - 1997 - 188 pages
...Roe to make a (formal) determination as to the life status of the fetus. As Justice Blackmun put it, "When those trained in the respective disciplines...at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point in man's knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer." 11 The Court nevertheless established... | |
 | Rosemary J. Erickson, Rita James Simon - Judicial process - 1998 - 204 pages
...considered against important state interest in regulation" (154). Blackmun (159) also notes that the Court need not resolve the difficult question of when life...not in a position to speculate as to the answer." Another issue not addressed, and which the Court said it would not judge in this decision, is the constitutionality... | |
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We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point in the development of man's knowledge,... 
