Rhenquist was good. The rest not so much. Admittedly I don’t know much about White - he was before my time.
Wow. Given how bat-guano crazy Ginsberg was, I can’t imagine how hardcore communist Douglas must have been.
White, a Kennedy appointee, was smart, wrote clearly, and usually voted conservative. Douglas, Marshall, and Brennan are the three Leftist votes in that era.
Supreme Court issued a 7–2 decision in McCorvey's favor holding that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides a fundamental "right to privacy", which protects a pregnant woman's right to an abortion.
However, it also held that the right to abortion is not absolute and must be balanced against the government's interest in protecting both women's health and prenatal life.
It resolved these competing interests by announcing a pregnancy trimester timetable to govern all abortion regulations in the United States.
The Court also classified the right to abortion as "fundamental", which required courts to evaluate challenged abortion laws under the "strict scrutiny" standard, the most stringent level of judicial review in the United States.