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The Supreme Court decision of 1973 in the case of Roe vs. Wade has had more impact on women than any other judicial decision in history. It is the story of a courageous young woman and her two brilliant young women lawyers. While virtually no one is for abortion per se, no other issue triggers such impassioned views pro and con.

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Library Journal Review

The Supreme Court entered a major civil rights controversy in Roe v. Wade (1973), involving privacy, women's rights, and fetal rights. Fifteen years later, two authors approach the case differently, though both believe individual women must have the right to control their bodies. Faux ( Childless by Choice ) offers a detailed description of the legal maneuvers surrounding the landmark case. She reveals the legal and social factors that led to the momentous decision to test the constitutionality of the Texas abortion law, focusing on two women attorneys who developed the case. Their struggle to retain control of it provides an unusual view of politics among lawyers. Faux's analysis of the case prior to the Supreme Court decision is useful, offering important additional information for lay readers and specialists. Law professor Goldstein offers a speculative essay to uncover the central dimensions of abortion law. Providing an excellent analysis of conflicting viewpoints, he shows that existing views cannot resolve questions about privacy or right to life. Using psychoanalytic-dyadic theory, he gives a revisionist legal view of the relationship between woman and fetus, proposing a new definition of their relationship based on the rights and duties of each party. He equates a woman's love of a fetus to an element of freedom. A provocative and challenging work for specialists.Steven Puro, St. Louis Univ. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

A journalistic account of the historic and controversial Supreme Court decision. In the single case focus and descriptive profile, it invites comparison with Anthony Lewis's Gideon's Trumpet (CH, Sep '64), the account of the Supreme Court decision mandating counsel for felony defendants in state court. Faux's book, however, is not as strong as the Lewis classic. In spite of the presence of brief endnotes at the end of the book, there is no real documentation. The selected bibliography lists many popular sources and does not do justice to the enormous legal and social scientific literature on the topic. Second, the author seems to draw some sweeping empirical conclusions on, for example, the state of scientific evidence, the positions of interested observers, and public opinion. Finally, Faux's admitted bias that "criminalization of abortion is wrong" seems to color her characterizations and her conclusions. The subtitle, "The Untold Story of the {{emphasis in the original book jacket}} Landmark Supreme Court Decision that Made Abortion Legal," suggests that the story will yield an insider's perspective. To the extent that Faux has accurately portrayed the perspectives of the central attorneys in the litigation, that may be true; however, the absence of an interview with Roe herself limits that claim. It is interesting and, to some degree, informative, but not comprehensive or balanced. Designed more for the popular than the academic market. -S. M. Talarico, University of Georgia

Booklist Review

In 1970 attorneys Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee filed a class-action suit on behalf of ``Jane Roe'' in a federal courthouse. The unidentified plaintiff sought the right to obtain an abortion in the state of Texas. Three years later, the U.S. Supreme Court decided on the matter of Roe v. Wade, one of the most controversial cases in the history of the Court. In an effort to obtain the inside story of this landmark case, Faux interviewed as many of the individuals involved as possible. The author skillfully places the case in its historical context by describing the political and social climate of the time and the growing strength of the women's movement. Although Supreme Court deliberations are very secretive, Faux plausibly pieces together what might have happened behind the scenes to produce Justice Blackmun's controversial opinion. Notes; bibliography; to be indexed. JKL. 345.73'0285 Roe, Jane-Trials, litigation, etc. / Wade, Henry-Trials, litigation, etc. / Abortion-Law and legislation-U.S. [OCLC] 87-34827