Abortion

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             Planned Parenthood claims that their efforts would reduce abortion and the births of children by unwed teenagers. Their goal has not even and from my point of view will never be a reality.
             There have been many court battles through the years that pushed the doors of abortion open and shut, but two cases brought the legalization of abortion about, Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton. The following is a syllabus for these famous cases: A pregnant single woman (Roe) brought a class action challenging the constitutionality of the Texas criminal abortion laws, which proscribe procuring or attempting an abortion except on medical advice for the purpose of saving the mother's life. A licensed physician (Hallford), who had two state abortion prosecutions pending against him, was permitted to intervene. A childless married couple (the Does), the wife not being pregnant, separately attacked the laws, basing alleged injury on the future possibilities of contraceptive failure, pregnancy, unprepared ness for parenthood, and impairment of the wife's health. A three-judge District Court, which consolidated the actions, held that Roe and Hallford, and members of their classes, had standing to sue and presented justifiable controversies. Ruling that declaratory, though not injunctive, relief was warranted, the court declared the abortion statutes void as vague and over broadly infringing those plaintiffs' Ninth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. The court ruled the Does' complaint not justifiable. Appellants directly appealed to this Court on the injunctive rulings, and appall cross-appealed from the District Court's grant of declaratory relief to Roe and Hallford. Held: .
             1. While 28 U. S. C. ' 1253 authorizes no direct appeal to this Court from the grant or denial of declaratory relief alone, review is not foreclosed when the case is properly before the Court on appeal from specific denial of injunctive relief and the arguments as to both injunctive and declaratory relief are necessarily identical.