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Harry A. Blackmun
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The main reason for legal abortion and other forms of birth control is women's rights, an idea which has not had smooth sailing. The April 10 edition of The New York Times Magazine features the article, "The Evolution of a Justice," written by Linda Greenhouse, the Supreme Court reporter for the Times. Greenhouse believes that the debate over legal abortion has been with us for so long, and for every minute of that time in high profile of public discourse, that it is "tempting to assume that the middle-aged men who voted in 1973 to overturn state abortion laws thought they were striking a blow for women's equality. This is incorrect. Justice Harry A Blackmun, on the U.S. Supreme Court for 24 years, wrote the opinion in Roe vs. [Wade]. He believed for decades that the constitutional ...
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A lot rulings during that period were a reflection of the [William Rehnquist] court's view that we don't need to control or regulate the death penalty, this is a state function," [Richard Dieter] says. "Executing juveniles and the mentally retarded aren't things that we necessarily think are the best as individuals, but there's no constitutional violation. [Anthony Kennedy]'s evolution is only the most recent example of how a justice's views on capital punishment can be tempered over time. Former Justice Harry Blackmun was once a firm supporter of the death penalty, but in a 1994 dissent he wrote: "From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I feel morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed."...
