Dr. J. Jerry Rodos v. Julius C. Michaelson

ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

After the Supreme Court’s decisions in Roe v. Wade, 1973, 410 U.S. 113, 93 S.Ct. 705, 35 L.Ed.2d 147, and Doe v. Bolton, 1973, 410 U.S. 179, 93 S.Ct. 739, 35 L.Ed.2d 201, which struck down both an old and a more modern series of abortion statutes, but left open certain areas to the states, the Rhode Island legislature amended its laws, but did so, we were obliged to find, in disregard of the Supreme Court’s rulings. See Doe v. Israel, 1 Cir., 1973, 482 F.2d 156, cert. denied, 416 U.S. 993, 94 S.Ct. 2406, 40 L.Ed.2d 772. The statute involved in Israel exceeded…