1. The Evolution of a Justice.
- Author
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Greenhouse, Linda
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ABORTION laws , *WOMEN'S rights , *SEX discrimination laws ,ROE v. Wade - Abstract
Focuses on Justice of the Supreme Court Harry Blackmun, whose papers regarding Roe v. Wade and abortion were released in 2004. Presentation of two abortion cases, Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, months after Blackmun was appointed by then U.S. President Richard Nixon in 1970; Belief that abortion laws prevented doctors from using their judgment to decide if an abortion was medically necessary, and led to their prosecution if they performed an abortion when medically necessary; Efforts of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to highlight sex discrimination as a relative to racism, and bring the government's attention to sex discrimination; Blackmun's unfavorable opinion of Ginsburg's paper on a sex discrimination case.
- Published
- 2005