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Medicine, Law, and Ethics
Roe v. Wade, was a 1973 Supreme Court
decision that affirmed abortion as a privacy right protected by the Constitution. It spurred the introduction of hundreds of amendments in Congress -- both to ban and protect abortions. As the Senate planned hearings, this letter suggested that legislators "receive the evidence offered by professionals trained in the fields of medicine, law, and social and biological ethics."
Letter to Senator Birch Bayh regarding congressional hearings on constitutional amendments on abortion, January 29, 1974
Records of the U.S. Senate |