Roy Lucas (November 27, 1941 – October 31, 2003) was an American lawyer and

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activist, known for drafting a law review that laid the theoretical background behind the principles articulated in ''

Roe v. Wade ''Roe v. Wade'', 410 U.S. 113 (1973),. was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States conferred the right to have an abortion. The decision struck down many federal and st ...

''.Ian Urbina
"Roy Lucas, 61, Legal Theorist Who Helped Shape ''Roe'' Suit"
(obituary), ''The New York Times'', Nov. 7, 2003. Lucas graduated from New York University Law School in 1967. He was teaching at the University of Alabama when he was wrote "Federal Constitutional Limitations on the Enforcement and Administration of State Abortion Statutes" in ''North Carolina Law Review'' in 1968. Lucas established the James Madison Constitutional Law Institute to work for women's abortion rights and was instrumental in numerous abortion rights cases in the 1960s and 1970s, including ''

''. After 1986, he focused primarily on art, painting, and writing about art, while continuing to write about abortion. Roy Lucas, New Historical Insights on the Curious Case of Baird v. Eisenstad, 9 Roger Williams Law Reviews 9 (2003). He died of a heart attack on October 31, 2003.

Bibliography

* "Federal Constitutional Limitations on the Enforcement and Administration of State Abortion Statutes," ''46 North Carolina Law Review 730'' (June 1968)

Notes

Further research

* David Garrow, ''Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade'' (University of California Press, 1998). * David Garrow, How Roe v. Wade Was Written, 71 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 893 (2013) * A. Raymond Randolph
"Address: Before ''Roe v. Wade'': Judge Friendly's Draft Abortion Opinion"
''Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy'' (Summer 2006), v.29, n.3, pp. 1035–1062 (an unpublished draft opinion in an abortion rights case, preceded by a lengthy commentary from a conservative jurist discussing the history of abortion rights jurisprudence) * Robert O. Self
"How Choice Won"
Salon.com, Sept. 22, 2012. ; Research Libraries
"Abortion Litigation Papers of Roy Lucas"
Collection at

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