What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said

Jack M. Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School, and the Founder and Director of Yale's Information Society Project. He is the author of numerous books, including The Cycles of Constitutional Time, and the editor of What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said. He lives in Branford, Connecticut..

The interest of the whole lies precisely in its depiction within a single volume of where the debate stands. -- Federal Lawyer Brings together some of America's brightest legal minds to make the best arguments available for and against the constitutional right to abortion. An exceptional volume and essential for anyone who wants to understand the constitutional debate about Roe. -- Nadine Strossen, former President, American Civil Liberties Union In light of the recent Dobbs Supreme Court decision, this volume is crucial for understanding the constitutional debate for or against abortion. The diverse argumentation along with the inclusion of contemporary sources make this volume an invaluable resource. -- Mark A. Graber, University of Maryland Carey School of Law This array of intelligent and serious alternatives to the Court's stunningly inadequate opinion in Roe v. Wade is the most convincing argument against any litmus test on this subject either way for future Supreme Court Justices. -- Charles Fried, Harvard Law School