Notes to Chapter Six

1. Quoted in "Abortion Under Attack," Newsweek, June 5, 1978, p. 37.

2. Cited in John T. Noonan, Jr., "Should Congress Investigate the Treasury's Funding of Abortion?" Human Life Review 4, no. 2 (1978): 15. The present chapter is indebted to this very helpful article for information concerning the litigation pertaining to the Hyde Amendment.

3. Ibid., p. 17.

4. Ibid., pp. 11-21.

5. Maher v. Roe No. 75-1440, cited in Legal Defense Fund Newsletter no. 6, June, 1977, p. 1.

6. Ibid., p. 2.

7. Ibid.

8. Ibid., p. 3.

9. Ibid.

10. Ibid., p. 4.

11. Ibid., p. 5.

12. Lex Vitae 1, no. 1 (1977): 1.

13. Noonan, "Should Congress Investigate the Treasury's Funding of Abortion?", p. 19.

14. Quoted in Lifeletter, March 8, 1977, pp. 1,2

15. "Abortion Under Attack," p. 42.

16. Ibid.

17. Lifeletter, June 16, 1978, p. 1.

18. Senator Jesse Helms, "A Human Life Amendment," The Human Life Review 3, no. 2 (1977): 22.

19. Ibid.

20. Ibid., p. 23.

21. Sam J. Ervin, Jr., "The Convention Method of Amending the Constitution," Human Life Review 3, no. 2 (1977): 51, reprinted from the Michigan Law Review 66, no. 5 (1968).

22. Ibid., p. 55.

23. David W. Louisell, "The Burdick Proposal: A Life-Support Amendment," Human Life Review 1, no. 4 (1975): 10.

24. Robert M. Byrn, "A Human Life Amendment: What Would It Mean?" Human Life Review 1, no. 2 (1975): 53.

25. Cited in Human Life Review 1, no. 2 (1975): 102, 103. Other amendments have been proposed, but S.J.R. 6 and S.J.R. 11 listed here display the representative features of such amendments.

26. Robert M. Byrn, "On the Objections to an Amendment," Human Life Review 2, no. 4 (1976): 126.

27. Ibid., p. 127.

28. Robert Byrn, "A Human Life Amendment: What Would It Mean?", Human Life Review 1, no. 2 (1975): 61.

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