Dr. Bernard Nathanson, who was a founder of NARAL, a group that was active in the fight to legalize abortion:
“Of course, I was pleased with Justice Harry Blackmun’s abortion decisions, which were an unbelievably sweeping triumph for our cause, far broader than our 1970 victory in New York or the advances since then. I was pleased with Blackmun’s conclusions, that is. I could not plumb the ethical or medical reasoning that had produced the conclusions. Our final victory had been propped up on a misreading of obstetrics, gynecology, and embryology, and that’s a dangerous way to win.”
Bernard Nathanson, M.D. Aborting America (New York: Pinnacle Books, 1979) 163 quoted in Michael Spellman Love the Least (A Lot)
Nathanson later became pro-life
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Justice Blackmun’s former clerk Edward Lazarus, who is now a federal prosecutor:
“What, exactly, is the problem with Roe? The problem, I believe, is that it has little connection to the constitutional right purportedly interpreted… When Democratic Senators oppose a judicial appointment because of the nominees opposition to Roe, they not only endorsement make a litmus test out of one of the most intellectually suspect constitutional decisions of the modern era. They practically require that a judicial nominee sign onto logic that is, at best, questionable, and at worst, this disingenuous and results-oriented.”
Edward Lazarus “the Lingering Problems with Roe V Wade, and Why the Recent Senate Hearings on Michael McConnell’s Nomination Only Underlined Them” Findlaw, Thomas Reuters, October 3, 2002
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