Justice Blackmun's Documents Show Roe v. Wade Almost Fell in 1992

LifeNews.com ^ | 3-4-04 | Steven Ertelt

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1973 United States Supreme Court

“The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.” C. S. Lewis

Note that the only two who voted against the majority in Roe v Wade (against MURDERING babies) are on the right side of the photo. Rehnquist standing and White seated.

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Historic PING of Monumental Pingportions. (Eventhough it's a few days old.)

Justice Blackmun's Documents Show Roe v. Wade Almost Fell in 1992

[PackerBoy]

Never trust a Kennedy.

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Boy isn't THAT the truth!!!

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PING

[RoseofTexas]

Is Kennedy still alive?? If not, he already got his BIG reward in heaven. All those children murdered were probably flashed across his face in the judgment room! OOOOO

[Fun Bob]

This guy should have recused himself from this case. Clearly he was biased as to the outcome.

miserable failure miserable failure miserable failure miserable failure war criminal

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Kennedy is still alive & on the SCOTUS.

see current membership & who appointed them
7 by Republicans
AND KENNEDY BY REAGAN!!

Rehnquist, William H. Arizona Nixon January 7, 1972 September 26, 1986*(became chief)
Stevens, John Paul Illinois Ford December 19, 1975
O’Connor, Sandra Day Arizona Reagan September 25, 1981
Scalia, Antonin Virginia Reagan September 26, 1986
Kennedy, Anthony M. California Reagan February 18, 1988
Souter, David H. New Hampshire Bush October 9, 1990
Thomas, Clarence Georgia Bush October 23, 1991
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader New York Clinton August 10, 1993
Breyer, Stephen G. Massachusetts Clinton August 3, 1994

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bump and forward to private email distribution.

[Coleus]

Pope Insists Catholic Legislators Must Never Vote Against Life or Family

VATICAN, March 1, 2004, Pope John Paul II said Saturday that it was an "opportune" time to remind lawmakers and Catholic lawmakers in particular that they may never vote in favor of laws attacking life or attacking the family. The Pope made his comments in a speech to Argentina's new ambassador to the Vatican.

The Pope urged the building of a society "worthy of man" which must therefore be based on "fundamental and irrevocable values" which include life and family. He said laws must protect life "from conception to natural death" and marriage - the "pillar of society . . . the union of man and woman, open to life, which gives rise to the natural institution of the family"

"I consider it opportune to recall that the legislator, and the Catholic legislator in particular, cannot contribute to the formulation or approval of laws contrary to 'the primary and essential norms that regulate moral life', the expressions of the highest values of the human person and proceeding in the last analysis from God, the Supreme Legislator," said the Pope.

He warned, "One must keep this in mind at this moment in which there are not lacking attempts to reduce matrimony to a mere individual contract, with characteristics quite diverse from those that belong to matrimony and the family, and which wind up degrading it, as if it were a form of accessory association within the social body."

He concluded, "For that reason, perhaps now more than ever, public authorities have to protect and favor the family, the fundamental nucleus of society, in all its aspects, knowing that they are thus promoting a social development that is just, stable and promising."

See the full text (in Spanish) at:
http://www.vatican.va/news_services/bulletin/news/14446.php?index=14446&po_date=28.02.2004&lang=en

[Jonah Johansen]

7 Republican Appointments
2 Democratic Appointments

Incredible squandering of political power by the Republicans. Incredible betrayal of their supporters.

[RedMonqey]

"Nothing in the Blackmun files reveals why Kennedy changed his mind."



The wind shifted and his reed of a backbone bent with it.

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Notes:

Robert Bork was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1987, which the Senate Rejected.

Anthony Kennedy was Reagan’s second choice appointee and was confirmed by the Senate in early 1988.

Based on Bork’s quote below it is all but certain that he would have joined with Rehnquist, White, Scalia, and Thomas in overturning Roe v Wade in the 1992 Casey v. Planned Parenthood decision.

This is why it is so critically important to vote Pro-Life in EVERY election. Not just for President and Congress but for State and local as well. The issue of Life must be the one factor in determining whom to vote for without compromise or exception.

It almost never happens but if two candidates are truly equally pro-life, then and only then may other factors be considered.

In the January 2003, edition of First Things, in a piece entitled Constitutional Persons: An Exchange on Abortion Robert H. Bork made the following comments about Roe v. Wade:

"Blackmun invented a right to abortion....Roe had nothing whatever to do with constitutional interpretation. The utter emptiness of the opinion has been demonstrated time and again, but that, too, is irrelevant. The decision and its later reaffirmations simply enforce the cultural prejudices of a particular class in American society, nothing more and nothing less. For that reason, Roe is impervious to logical or historical argument; it is what some people, including a majority of the Justices, want, and that is that."

[lentulusgracchus]

Notes on your notes about the Justices:

Arizona is certainly overrepresented with two justices.

Anthony Kennedy proves that you should never, ever, appoint anyone to the Supreme Court from California (Kennedy, Warren).

The Rapist certainly restricted his appointments geographically, didn't he? Nobody from west of the Hudson.

[lentulusgracchus]

Anthony Kennedy's sustaining vote on Casey not to overturn Roe was the subject of a column some time afterward by conservative Catholic columnist Bob Novak. Novak made these relevant arguments:

1. Professor Laurence Tribe, dean of Harvard Law, annually nominates several graduating Harvard Law students to be clerks to the Supreme Court justices. Tribe was using his former students to back-channel lobby the justices, and Justices Kennedy and Souter were particularly susceptible to this influence. Tribe would talk to the clerks and suggest precedents they might retrieve that would bear favorably (from a policy perspective) on the case at hand.

2. Whereas Souter was cultivated at parties by liberal Democratic social doyenne Pamela Harriman (Winston Churchill's daughter and Ambassador and Washington "wise man" Averell Harriman's wife), Anthony Kennedy was lobbied directly by Tribe on the eve of the Casey decision. Kennedy attended a judicial conference in Vienna, and Tribe seized on the opportunity to meet with the justice and lobby him over coffee in a Viennese cafe for three solid hours.

There's your swinging gate.

[lentulusgracchus]

What-he-said bump for Bob Bork.

Too dangerous to allow on the Court. No wonder Joe Biden went after him.

Ninth Amendment my happy foot. The liberals had never even read it before.

[lentulusgracchus]

Incredible squandering of political power by the Republicans. Incredible betrayal of their supporters.

It certainly has been an "incredible betrayal". Whether it was also a "squandering" depends on what their real ends in view were.

The real question is, what are the ends in view of the national Republican leadership, and do the GOP rank-and-file understand those ends clearly? Or are we being consistently and cynically deceived? The juridical careers of these Supreme Court justices would seem to suggest that in fact we are.

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7 Republican Appointments 2 Democratic Appointments Incredible squandering of political power by the Republicans. Incredible betrayal of their supporters.

Very good point!