Even Court watchers who favored legislative
liberalization of abortion law were inclined to agree with dissenting Justice Byron White that the case represented an extraordinary judicial power grab.
The lobbying efforts of this group contributed to
the liberalization of abortion laws in the State of New York before Roe v. Wade, and no doubt had an indirect effect on that decision itself.
At that time, Lader was clearly in favor of a complete
liberalization of abortion laws, and he repeatedly suggested throughout the book that the main impediment to such a liberalization was the power of the «Roman Catholic hierarchy.»
Not exact matches
After all, the Court could have come down, as the German Constitutional Court did in a 1975 decision interpreting Germany's Basic
Law, in precisely the opposite way — invalidating a legislatively enacted
liberalization of abortion.
His attacks on the powerful Roman Catholic Church and his championing
of causes, such as the legalization
of soft drugs, gay rights and
liberalization of Poland's strict
abortion laws, have impressed many young voters.