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Today is National Abortion Providers Day, honoring those who routinely place themselves in the line of fire to make sure that women's constitutional right to choose remains uninfringed. Roe v. Wade is not an static law; its survival rests on the shoulders of some of the most courageous individuals in our country...
Spending an early Saturday morning in front of a Planned Parenthood clinic is a profound way to see how abortion rights in this country have deteriorated since the passage of Roe v. Wade. On the day Planned Parenthood performs abortions, crews of anti-abortion protesters threaten, abuse and physically block those trying to enter the clinic. This is the situation that awaits women lucky enough to be in a state with abortion providers...
...death of Justice Harry A. Blackmun '29 last week offers us a unique opportunity to reflect on the state of abortion rights. Before Blackmun drafted the Supreme Court's legendary Roe v. Wade decision, women died daily, victims of botched back-alley abortions. Virtually everyone knew someone--friend, sister, daughter or mother--who had an illegal abortion. Women who were allowed to have an abortion were made to sign a psychiatrist's note saying that they were suicidal...
rooted in the Roe vs. Wade decision, his memoryextends beyond the courtroom. Friends andcolleagues recounted the devoted relationshipBlackmun shared with his wife Dorothy--whom heaffectionately called Dottie--since their 1941marriage...
Even 26 years after the Roe decision, thelandmark ruling continues to resonate withabortion advocates. Kim Gandy, the executive vicepresident of the National Organization for Women,said Blackmun steadily became a stronger advocatefor women's rights, stressing his role in morerecent cases like J.E.B. vs. Alabama(1994), which prevents lawyers from peremptorilyremoving women from juries because of theirgender...