Volume 36, Number 14 · September 28, 1989
The Future of Abortion
By Ronald Dworkin
On July 3 the Supreme Court decided Webster v. Missouri Reproduction Services, the abortion case that had been the subject of unprecedented political campaigns, demonstrations, and public debate for months.[1] By a five-to-four vote, the Court left standing every provision of the Missouri statute restricting abortion that had been brought before it, reversing lower federal courts which had declared these provisions unconstitutional.
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