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Doctors, Patients and the Constitution: A Theoretical Analysis of the Physician's Role in “Private” Reproductive Decisions

Author: Susan Frelich Appleton (Washington University School of Law)

  • Doctors, Patients and the Constitution: A Theoretical Analysis of the Physician's Role in “Private” Reproductive Decisions

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    Doctors, Patients and the Constitution: A Theoretical Analysis of the Physician's Role in “Private” Reproductive Decisions

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This Article examines the role of the physician and current medical practice in the changing legal status of abortion restrictions. In doing so, this Article considers "constitutional privacy" from a perspective different from other inquiries, which almost always emphasize the individual patient as the right-holder, and concludes that, at least in the abortion context, the Court's vision of privacy consistently makes the doctor, not his patient, the centerpiece of the analysis.

Keywords: Abortion, Right of privacy, Physicians

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1985-01-01