Issues Raised by the Abortion Rescue Movement

Authors

Charles E. Rice, Notre Dame Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1989

Publication Information

23 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 15 (1989)

Abstract

The civil rights protests of the fifties and sixties taught the nation about the relation of the enacted law to the higher law of justice. Though less favorably publicized, the abortion rescue movement provides another such teaching moment today. As with the civil rights protests, the abortion rescue movement involves ordinary people putting their bodies on the line-and in jail-to vindicate their conception of justice. The rescue movement raises issues that transcend the question of whether one approves or disapproves of abortion. This paper examines what society might learn from the Operation Rescue movement about the weaknesses of our law.

Comments

Reprinted with permission of Suffolk University Law Review.

Recommended Citation

Charles E. Rice, Issues Raised by the Abortion Rescue Movement, 23 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 15 (1989).
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