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...happy assignment?will be excoriated." HARRY BLACKMUN, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice, in a memo from his unsealed private papers describing the task of writing the court's opinion in Roe v. Wade, the 1972 abortion case...
...nationwide mandate of constitutional change the best way to go? Thirty-one years ago, in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court imposed a single standard on abortion across a nation still groping toward diverse solutions on that divisive issue. We all know how well that worked. Now the images of gay and lesbian couples, ecstatic about getting married, are beaming across the nation. "They're putting the human face" on the issue, says Bruce Nelson of Lawrenceville, Ga., the father of a gay son, 23, and a lesbian daughter, 26. "It's not lawsuits with a bunch of lawyers arguing...
...blamed the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision Roe v. Wade for many of the harms that women face today...
...Since Roe, 40 million American children have been aborted,” she said, adding that on average, one in every three pregnancies results in abortion...
...Clinton fan” is told about Kerry’s insistence on keeping Bush’s tax cuts for the middle class. A woman who says abortion is the only issue that matters to her is reminded of the senator’s longstanding support of Roe v. Wade. Another woman, whose 31-year-old son has been unemployed for more than a year because his company moved to Switzerland, hears about the senator’s promise to close tax loopholes for such corporations...