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62 Alb. L. Rev. 833 (1998-1999)
Abortion before and after Roe v. Wade: An Historical Perspective

handle is hein.journals/albany62 and id is 847 raw text is: ARTICLES ABORTION BEFORE AND AFTER ROE v. WADE: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE David J. Garrow* I. Having spoken at a number of events similar to this one with Sarah Weddington, I now know from experience that it is always better to go before Sarah rather than after. But I am certain that there also is one reason, not listed in your program, for why I am here today, and that is that there are several things that I am going to say that probably will allow all of our upcoming speakers-no matter what their views on abortion-to agree unanimously that, if nothing else, Garrow is wrong. I am going speak largely as a historian this evening, in part be- cause the recent murder in Buffalo of Dr. Barnett Slepian' requires us to appreciate all the more so how the present-day realities re- garding the availability of abortion services are not all that funda- mentally different from what history tells us were the realities of abortion even back before Roe v. Wade2 itself.3 * Presidential Distinguished Professor, Emory University School of Law. B.A. Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University. Professor Garrow is the author of LIBERTY AND SEXUALITY: THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY AND THE MAKING OF ROE v. WADE (1994), a comprehen- sive history of the American reproductive rights struggle. His previous book, BEARING THE CROSS (1986), won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Biography and the seventh annual Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. 1 See Janice L. Habuda & Carl Allen, Abortion Doctor Shot Dead by Sniper, BUFFALO NEWS, Oct. 24, 1998, at Al. 2 410 U.S. 113 (1973). 3 See discussion infra Parts VI-VII.

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