The associate professor of law proposes legislation to facilitate consultation by a woman considering abortion with a physician whom she has chosen to provide her with comprehensive care, while respecting her constitutional rights.
Legal scholarship by an 福利亚洲国产精品 School of Law faculty member聽has been published in the latest issue of the Catholic University Law Review.
by Associate Professor Tom聽Molony was published in the law review’s summer issue.聽Founded in 1950, the quarterly law review is聽the Columbus School of Law’s oldest legal journal. The student-run scholarly journal “examines problems of current legal concern”聽with articles submitted by legal scholars and practitioners.
The abstract:
“滨苍听Whole Woman鈥檚 Health v. Hellerstedt, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down regulations that it believed would inhibit a woman鈥檚 ability to receive meaningful personal consultation and support before choosing to have an abortion. The Court thus echoed what it had emphasized in聽Roe v. Wade聽more than 40 years earlier鈥攖hat an abortion decision would follow an extensive discussion between a woman and her physician. An ob/gyn who provides a woman with regular care likely is best equipped to offer this type of consultation, but most ob/gyns do not perform abortions, and there is evidence that physicians who perform abortions do not always engage in robust dialogue with the women whom they see for that purpose. In light of these realities, this article suggests that states adopt measures to facilitate consultation by a woman considering abortion with a physician whom she has chosen to provide her with comprehensive care. The article proposes model legislation designed both to achieve this end and to respect a woman鈥檚 constitutional rights.”
Molony joined the Elon faculty in 2008 after practicing law with the Charlotte firm of Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson.聽