New Evidence Suggests Blackmun Should Have Recused Himself from Roe v Wade

LifeSite.net ^ | Thursday March 4, 2004

[nickcarraway]

Daughter's teen pregnancy and failed shotgun marriage played a part in ruling

WASHINGTON, March 4, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The late Harry Blackmun was the Supreme Court Justice who supported and authored the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision which sanctioned the legalization of murder by striking down the US abortion law. In an interview Sunday, Blackmun's daughter Sally Blackmun, the executor of his private papers, revealed the background behind his ruling. The interview is a result of her decision to release his private documents for public purview this week.

According to his daughter, Justice Blackmun's choice to strike down the abortion law had much to do with input he sought from her. "Roe was a case that Dad struggled with," Blackmun told the feminist news service, WomensEnews. "It was a case that he asked his daughters' and wife's opinion about."

In 1966, while a 19-year-old sophomore at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Blackmun discovered she was pregnant. "It was one of those things I was not at all proud of, that I was not at all pleased with myself about. It was a big disappointment to my parents," she said. "I did what so many young women of my era did. I quit college and married my 20-year-old college boyfriend. It was a decision that I might have made differently had Roe v. Wade been around."

Sally told WomensEnews that her marriage lasted only six years, and her college education took almost as long. "Even that might not have occurred, if she had carried to term," she said. In 1972, Justice Blackmun sought his daughter's opinion on the Roe v. Wade decision.

At the time of the decision, Sally Blackmun lived and worked in Washington. Her father gave her advance notice that he was to disclose his ruling, in order for her to be present when it was revealed. "I was very pleased with the decision and the fact that it gave women that right of choice," she told WomensEnews. "Dad always felt that it was the right thing to do and the necessary thing to do toward the full emancipation of women in this country. So we certainly were in favour of what he did."

Sally is an attorney for Darden Restaurants Inc., which operates a chain of restaurants nationwide. She is to be named chair of Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando in May, an organization for whom she has raised $3 million to construct a new abortion facility. Rita Lowndes, Former Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando chair says of Blackmun's work, "Sally sees it as a way to honor her father's legacy."

[jmaroneps37]

This shows once again that the rats are a very selfish and phoney bunch of people.

[KantianBurke]

WTF is a penumbra?

[xsmommy]

it is the pretend place in the Constitution where those seeking additional rights, not enumerated, go to find them.

[Ditto]

Funny. All of this intimate detail, but no mention of Justice Blackman's grandchild. Was he/she loved and cherished, or considered a burden in the pursuit of a career? I wonder what became of the child.

[moonman]

I think her mind majored in 'Skidrow' at Skidmore College

[Taliesan]

Instead of deciding the constitutionality of the ruling, he consulted his wife and daughters and made up his mind based on what would be good for women.

In other words, he simply ruled based on what he would have written into the Constitution if he had written it.

[cynicom]

Dont ask about the child. It's life was something the young lady was not "very proud of". She carries on a lifetime of work trying to stifle that tiny bit of conscience that nags her everyday. The lady knows full well she will never repent in public for her mistakes or the fact that her Father was a failure.

[happygrl]

I wonder what became of the child.

From Post # 1:

Three weeks after a quiet wedding, she had a miscarriage.

[MHGinTN]

Love for a woman's exclusive right to murder the unborn alive humans appears to run in the Blackmun family. ... And the ghouls are proud of it! "I was very pleased with the decision and the fact that it gave women that right of choice," she told WomensEnews. "Dad always felt that it was the right thing to do and the necessary thing to do toward the full emancipation of women in this country. So we certainly were in favour of what he did."

[Cboldt]

Outcome based jurisprudence.

[Cboldt]

WTF is a penumbra?

It's a technical term in physics. It the part of a shadow that is not the deep part of the shadow, but between the "dark" shadow and the unshaded part.

In law, it's a code word for "I'm gonna make some law here, even though my job is to interpret law."

[Campion]

Dad always felt that it was the right thing to do and the necessary thing to do toward the full emancipation of women in this country. So we certainly were in favour of what he did

IOW, "Dad" legislated from the bench, based on his "feelings" and the "feelings" of his wife and daughter, not on the Constitution and the laws of the US ... and Sally is proud of what he did.

If I have a choice between sharing a cell in hell with Hitler or Harry Blackmun, I'd rather stay with Uncle Adolf. He was, at least, honest about being a tyrannical mass murderer.

[fml]

The constitution, not a daughters inconvienct pregnancy. is what he should have consulted.

[MHGinTN]

Blackmun and her ilk are the very sort of individuals who will bring cannibalism of the unborn into our society under the guise of enlightened medical application. The aliveness of the pre-born is a subjective thing to these ghoulish frauds. If the little ones are of utilitarian value, slaughter them at will and treat the sick. Don't believe it?... The expedience of hiring serial killers to slaughter alive unborn children has proven the these bastards to be soulless and selfish, in the main. The dehumanization of the unborn has brought this nation down, we just haven't realized it yet. And individuals like Blackmun and her ilk want to degenerate the society further, for the expedience of it all, to avoid responsibilities and cannibalize the youngest humans. Given their way, my granddaughter's world will have fetus farms of cloned 'tissue masses' for harvesting to treat ailments and reduce the wear of aging.