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I find nothing in the language or history of the Constitution to support the court's judgment. The court simply fashions and announces a new constitutional right for pregnant mothers and, with scarcely any reason or authority for its action, invests that right with sufficient substance to override most existing state abortion statutes.
Byron White, U.S. Supreme Court, one of two dissenters in Roe v. Wade, (January 22, 1973). | ||