Sentences with phrase «liberalization of abortion law»

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.»

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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.
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