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- From: sgast+@pitt.edu (Susan Garvin)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: The Supreme Court exceeded its authority in Roe v. Wade
- Message-ID: <1117@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 18:55:42 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.054752.13697@ncsu.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec23.054752.13697@ncsu.edu> dsholtsi@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger) writes:
- #I recently ran across a stunning quote concerning
- #the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade:
-
- Stunning?
-
- You and Suzanne are easily stunned.
-
- # "... Nor did The Times--or most of the other major media--pay
- # much attention to the discovery by Bob Woodward of the
- # Washington Post last year that two justices who had played
- # a major role in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing
- # abortion had conceded, in private memos, that they knew
- # they were ``legislating policy and exceeding [the court's]
- # authority as the interpreter, not the maker of law,'' as
- # Woodward wrote."
- #
- # The Los Angeles Times, July 2, 1990
- # "Abortion foes stereotyped, some in the media believe",
- # by David Shaw
-
- Since Roe has effectively been overturned, I can't understand
- the Reverend's obsession with it. Can anyone else?
-
- #I find this to be a remarkable revelation, and I was wondering
- #if anyone knew the date of the Washington Post story, or any
- #details about the "private memos" of the justices.
-
- Oh, just go ahead and make it all up, DODie. It's the holiday
- season, after all.
-
- Susan
-