Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
Significance, Friends Of The Court, Dumping Roe, Roe Must Not Go, Both Sides Now
Appellants
William L. Webster, Attorney General of Missouri, et al.
Appellees
Reproductive Health Services, et al.
Appellants' Claim
That the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred in overturning Missouri's laws restricting access to abortions.
Chief Lawyers for Appellants
William L. Webster, representing himself pro se (without counsel)
Chief Lawyer for Appellees
Frank Susman
Justices for the Court
Harry A. Blackmun, William J. Brennan, Jr., Anthony M. Kennedy, Thurgood Marshall, Sandra Day O'Connor, William H. Rehnquist (writing for the Court), Antonin Scalia, John Paul Stevens, Byron R. White
Justices Dissenting
None
Place
Washington, D.C.
Date of Decision
3 July 1989
Decision
Upheld Missouri's restrictions on access to abortion.
Related Cases
- Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965).
- Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973).
- Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 U.S. 883 (1992).
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