[infowarrior]

"The appellee and certain amici argue that the fetus is a 'person' within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. In support of this, they outline at length and in detail the well known facts of fetal development. If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the Amendment."

-- Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Roe vs. Wade, 1973

In short, Blackmun *knew* the decision was utterly unconstitutional on the face of it, a modern day Dred Scott, and supported that. History should not be kind to him, and he should fall into historical oblivion, even as Roger B. Taney did...

the infowarrior

[EternalVigilance]

Fifty million dead American babies, and hundreds and hundreds of million dead babies in other countries because of our immoral example, is a whole lot of innocent blood to have on one's hands, that's for sure.

The unspeakable horrors of human slavery in this country pale by comparison.

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever."

-- Thomas Jefferson

[boatbums]

In short, Blackmun *knew* the decision was utterly unconstitutional on the face of it, a modern day Dred Scott, and supported that. History should not be kind to him, and he should fall into historical oblivion, even as Roger B. Taney did...

Of course, he knew it. That's why he found a "penumbra of an emanation" in the constitution. Basically a shadow of a ghost of a right to privacy. Pretty poor reasoning for such a "bright" man. He answered to God already for it, that we know.