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“In medical practice, there are few surgical procedures given so little attention and so underrated in its potential hazard as abortion.”- Dr. Warren Hern, MDAbortion practitioner and author of Abortion Practice (1990), the textbook most widely used in the United States to teach abortion to medical personnel"Probably nothing has been as damaging to our cause as the advances in technology which have allowed pictures of the developing fetus, because people now talk about the fetus in much different terms than they did 15 years ago. They talk about it as a human being, which is not something that I have...

[...] Former Watergate prosecutor and Harvard law professor Archibald Cox once wrote, "Neither historian, nor layman, nor lawyer will be persuaded that all the prescriptions of Justice [Harry] Blackmun are part of the Constitution." The late Stanford law school dean John Hart Ely said the opinion "is not constitutional law and gives almost no sense of an obligation to try to be." Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, who argued Al Gore's post-election case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2000, has said of Roe that "behind its own verbal smokescreen, the substantive judgment on which it rests is nowhere to...