Enshrining Justice Harry Blackmun’s Legacy to His Nation

At “Choose Life” I encountered the following quotes from the Left’s legal scholars:

  • “This Court’s abortion decisions have already worked a major distortion in the Court’s constitutional jurisprudence….no legal rule or doctrine is safe from ad hoc nullification by this Court…in a case involving state regulations of abortion.” ~~Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • “Roe v. Wade…ventured too far in the change it ordered and presented an incomplete justification for its action.” ~~Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, North Carolina Law Review
  • “One of the most curious things about Roe is that, behind its own verbal smokescreen, the substantive judgment on which it rests is nowhere to be found.” ~~Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law Professor, Harvard Law Review
  • Roe v. Wade is “a very bad decision…because it is not constitutional law and gives almost no sense of an obligation to try to be.” ~~John Hart Ely, Yale Law Professor, Yale Law Journal
  • “As a matter of constitutional interpretation and judicial method, Roe borders on the indefensible…[it is] one of the most intellectually suspect constitutional decisions of the modern era.” ~~Edward Lazarus, former clerk to Justice Harry Blackmun (Author of Roe), FindLaw’s Writ
  • “Since its inception Roe has had a deep legitimacy problem, stemming from its weakness as a legal opinion.” ~~Benjamin Wittes, Washington Post Legal Affairs Editorial Writer, The Atlantic Monthly