IN ABORTION CASE, U.S. SUPREME COURT HAS IGNORED LONG-STANDING PROTECTIONS OF WOMEN'S HEALTH, SAYS DOMESTIC ATTORNEY DOR
PHILADELPHIA – August 6, 2007 – Family Law attorney
Dorothy K. Phillips says the U.S. Supreme Court not only eroded a woman's right to choose, it did away with any exception for the health of the woman; and did nothing to decrease the number of abortions performed at any time during pregnancy.
“The [recent Supreme Court] opinion in Gonzales v. Carhart, …set women back to where a woman's health is not even a consideration” wrote Phillips in "Has Stare Decisis Been Aborted?", published in the July 23, 2007 issue of the Pennsylvania Law Weekly and on her web site, www.mydivorceattorney.com.
“We all know the doctrine of stare decisis. When the highest court of the land has decided that abortion is legal, as was the case in Roe v. Wade, subsequent trial and appellate courts must uphold that finding.” Phillips wrote.
Phillips wrote that subsequent cases dealing with abortion before the court “not only followed the holding of Roe v. Wade, but made it clear that the health of the woman was paramount.”
Phillips said “the Supreme Court in Gonzales was compelled, under the doctrine of stare decisis, to follow the precedent already strongly established by that Court. It did not.”
The Pennsylvania Law Weekly is one of the most prestigious legal resources in the Commonwealth. The publication offers timely and objective coverage on federal and state cases for all 67 counties throughout Pennsylvania. Phillips is a featured family law columnist and regular contributor.
Phillips, who is founder and managing Partner of Dorothy K. Phillips & Associates, LLC, is a frequent author and lecturer on a variety of family law issues. She has been featured on WPVI-ABC 6, KYW-CBS 3, WCAU-NBC 10, Fox Philadelphia, and CNNfn, and has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Philadelphia Business Journal, Harper’s Bazaar magazine, and The Legal Intelligencer. A resident of Wynnewood, PA, Phillips also has been chosen to be listed in Who’s Who in American Law. She has received an AV rating by Martindale Hubble and is listed in the Martindale-Hubble Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.
A former family therapist, Phillips received her B.S. from The University of Pennsylvania (1964), her M.A. from New York University (1975) and her Juris Doctor degree from Villanova University School of Law (1978). She is a member of the American, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and the Montgomery County Bar Associations and the Pennsylvania and American Trial Lawyer Associations. She is a member of the Bars of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as well as the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.
For over two decades, Dorothy K. Phillips has focused her practice in the area of domestic relations, providing advice and counsel on a variety of complex marital issues involving divorce, division of property, alimony, child custody and child support. With three offices throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Dorothy K. Phillips & Associates, LLC is committed to providing its clients superior counsel and support.
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