Planned Parenthood v. Casey

The right to privacy is a complex issue due to its lack of definition in the Constitution. There is no direct Amendment that spells out what privacy is to be expected. The most important case for setting the standards of privacy Griswold v. Connecticut explored this problem. In this case Justice Douglass listed the origins of the right to privacy from coming from the First, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Ninth Amendments and the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Justice Douglass stated…

There are two types of abortion counseling that is often discussed. They are pre-procedure abortion counseling and options, or crisis pregnancy, counseling. These two counseling should be distinguished as pre-procedure abortion counseling is used when women are certain that they are not continuing their pregnancy; whereas, the options counseling is offered to those women who are undecided about her options and are unsure of the necessary information to make a decision. Options counseling also…

Even though the Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health was quite successful, another case in a sense overturned that. In the 1992 case of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, the court preserved the constitutional protection as far as the right to choose is concerned. However, it adopted new guidelines for testing and evaluating the restrictive abortion laws known as the undue burden test and state regulations can survive Constitutional review as long as they do not…

explains why the struggle to obtain affordable birth control is a continuous battle. Access to contraception has been a hot topic for a while with much opposition from companies and religious groups, with the most recent attempt to defund Planned Parenthood, an organization that provides many men and women with sex education as well as free or low-cost health services. Birth control is humane and a basic health right for women and a necessity for both partners, it reduces hospital bills,…

This ruling reshaped national politics dividing the United State into two parts, pro-abortion and anti-abortion; however, there was a matter of contention over this ruling, one of them being Planned Parenthood v Casey, (1992). In this case, the court defined fetal viability as “a fetus being able to live outside the mother’s womb without artificial aide.” This ruling created a traumatic upheaval as the women were taking the lives of their unborn children…

From the first glance the article “Abortion: To what extent should women be allowed access to abortion in the United Sates written by Facts on File Issues and Controversies” shows a picture of a peaceful protest brewing in front of the nations capitol. Protesters from both pro life and pro choice sides of the debate are holding propaganda signs with bold text stating “ keep abortion legal or defend life.” Some of the signs even have blown up ultrasound images showing fetuses in different stages…

Abortion Abortion became a primary issue with the court case Roe v. Wade when a decision was made by the Supreme Court in 1973 regarding the subject. The courts later changed certain parts of their decision with the court case Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey in 1992. The cases fought over the rights to receive an abortion and argued the right to do so through means of the Due Process clause of the 14th amendment and the Right to Privacy implied in previous cases.…

passed the Hyde Amendment banning (Medicaid) public funding for abortion unless a woman's life was in danger. In 1989, in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, the Court adopted new restrictions prohibiting state funding of abortion. In 1990, the decision Hodgson v. Minnesota (1990), upheld very strict parental notification laws. The 1992 decision Planned Parenthood v. Casey reaffirmed a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy, but allowed state regulation imposing several procedural…

The Court has described Justice Harlan’s Poe dissent as “[t]he second major opinion leading to the modern doctrine” of substantive due process. See Washington v. Glucksberg, 521 U.S. 702, 762 (Souter, J., concurring). In fact, the Court adopted Harlan’s reasoning in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 595 U.S. 833, 850 (1992), which established the “undue burden” standard of evaluating abortion restrictions. Critics charge that Harlan’s approach give judges carte blanche to enforce…

In 1973 a precedent was set after the U.S. Supreme Court made their decision in regards to the Roe v. Wade case of weather abortions restrictions interfere with a woman’s rights. The Supreme Court made the ruling that a woman has the choice to choose abortion as a fundamental constitutional right. Since than, there has been a significant amount of…