The wages of crying wolf: a comment on Roe v. Wade.

@article{Ely1973TheWO,
  title={The wages of crying wolf: a comment on Roe v. Wade.},
  author={John Hart Ely},
  journal={The Yale law journal},
  year={1973},
  volume={82 5},
  pages={
          920-49
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:27546920}
}
In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme CourtJustice Blackmun speaking for everyone but Justices White and Rehnquist-held unconstitutional Texas's (and virtually every other state's) criminal abortion statute.
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