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To: LibertarianInExile

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had undergone chemotherapy and radiation treatment for her colon cancer. Her sigmoid colon was removed on September 11, 1999 for what had been classified as stage-2 cancer. About 75% of stage-2 colon cancer patients are cured. The treatments began in October, 1999 and ended in June of 2000.

Justice Ginsburg who is 69 years of age had been taken ill while teaching this summer on the island of Crete. Her ailment was originally misdiagnosed as acute diverticulitis. This type of misdiagnosis happens fairly often because extensive testing is required to enable the medical professionals to distinguish between the two ailments.

Other justices who have been treated for cancer are John Paul Stevens, 85; Sandra Day O'Connor, 75, William H. Rehnquist

John Paul Stevens, who had prostate cancer, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was treated for colon cancer, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, whose recent bout of thyroid cancer


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Justice Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg (born March 15, 1933) is a United States jurist. Since 1993, she has served as an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Ginsburg was born Joan Ruth Bader in Brooklyn, New York, the second daughter of Nathan and Celia Bader. Ginsburg's older sister died when she was very young; the neighborhood where she grew up was made up of working-class immigrants, most of them Jewish, Italian, and Irish.

Ginsburg's mother called her "Kiki" and took an active role in Ruth's education, taking her to the library often and applying for scholarships that would allow her to attend college. Celia struggled with cancer throughout Ruth's high school years and died the day before graduation, forcing Ginsburg to withdraw from giving the salutatorian speech she had planned for months. In school, classmates recalled Ginsburg as highly popular and competitive; she joined the twirling squad in high school.

She married Martin D. Ginsburg, a professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, in 1954, and has a daughter, Jane, and a son, James. She received her B.A. from Cornell University in 1954, attended Harvard Law School, and when her husband accepted a job in New York City, she tranferred to Columbia Law School, where she received her LL.B. degree. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Edmund L. Palmieri, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, from 1959-1961. From 1961-1963, she was a research associate and then associate director of the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure. She was a Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law from 1963-1972, and Columbia Law School from 1972-1980, and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford University, California from 1977-1978.

In 1971, Ginsburg was instrumental in launching the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, and served as the ACLU's General Counsel from 1973-1980, and on the National Board of Directors from 1974-1980. In this position, Ginsburg successfully argued several women's rights cases before the Supreme Court, including 1973's Frontiero v. Richardson.

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Cancer has had a profound impact on Ginsburg's life. Her mother, Celia Bader, died of cervical cancer the night before young Ruth was to graduate from high school in 1948. Then, a few years after she married Martin Ginsburg in 1954 and while he was still in law school, her husband was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Martin Ginsburg recovered and is a prominent tax lawyer and law professor. They have a grown son and daughter.


132 posted on 07/05/2005 12:37:57 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl
In school, classmates recalled Ginsburg as highly popular and competitive; she joined the twirling squad in high school.

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Does anyone have a picture of her as young? I believe she is horribly wicked but I hope she repents before she dies.

138 posted on 07/05/2005 1:47:49 AM PDT by Bellflower (A new day is Coming!)
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We've known Ruth(less) was sick for a very long time, but thanks for the additional information.


145 posted on 07/05/2005 2:19:30 AM PDT by PGalt
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