Medical Evidence and Expertise in Abortion Jurisprudence. Issue 1 (March 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ahmed, Aziza
• Is Part Of: American journal of law & medicine. Volume 41:Issue 1(2015)
• Page Start: 85
• Page End: 118
• Publication Date: 2015-03
• Subjects: Medical jurisprudence -- United States -- Periodicals; Medical laws and legislation -- United States -- Periodicals; Jurisprudence -- Periodicals; Medicine -- Periodicals; Legislation as Topic -- Periodicals; Jurisprudence; Medicine; Legislation as Topic; Medical jurisprudence; Medical laws and legislation; United States; Electronic journals; 344.7304105
• DOI: 10.1177/0098858815591510
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0098-8588

Abstract

For another thing, the division of medical opinion about the matter at most means uncertainty, a factor that signals the presence of risk, not its absence. That division here involves highly qualified knowledgeable experts on both sides of the issue.— Stenberg v. Carhart, 2000 1 While we find no reliable data to measure the phenomenon, it seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained.— Gonzales v. Carhart, 2007 2