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DOE v. ISRAEL

Civ. A. No. 5153.

358 F.Supp. 1193 (1973)

Jane DOE et al. v. Richard ISRAEL, Attorney General of the State of Rhode Island.

United States District Court, D. Rhode Island.

May 16, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles G. Edwards, Edwards & Angell, Richard W. Zacks, Rhode Island Affiliate American Civil Liberties Union, Providence, R. I., Janice Goodman, Bellamy, Goodman, Kelly & Ross, New York City, Nancy Stearns, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York City, for plaintiffs.

W. Slater Allen, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of the Atty. Gen. for the State of Rhode Island, Providence, R. I., for defendant.

Joseph P. Witherspoon, Austin, Tex., Francis Boyle, Moore, Virgadamo, Boyle & Lynch, Ltd., Newport, R. I., for intervenor-Constitutional Right to Life Committee.

Thomas I. Emerson, Professor of Law, Yale Law School, New Haven, Conn., court appointed amicus.

Guy J. Wells, Bruce M. Selya, Providence, R. I., on behalf of certain doctors.

Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst, New York City; Harriet F. Pilpel, Frederic S. Nathan, Nancy F. Wechsler, Eve W. Paul, New York City, of counsel, amicus for plaintiffs by Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.

OPINION

PETTINE, Chief Judge.

This action challenges the constitutionality of the abortion statute enacted by the Rhode Island legislature in March of 1973. Plaintiffs originally sought injunctive and declaratory relief against the Rhode Island Criminal Abortion Statute (73-S 287 Substitute "A"), R.I. G.L. § 11-3-1 et seq.1 The claim for injunctive relief has been dropped, and...

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