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Dec 1, 2023 · However, O’Connor, then 51 and having undergone a hysterectomy months earlier, was quoted by the publication as saying, “I am not going to be pregnant anymore, so it is perhaps easy for me.” PBS writes that O’Connor’s first public SCOTUS opinion on abortion was in the 1983 case Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health.
Mar 27, 2019 · By Evan Thomas. March 27, 2019. When, in 1981, Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O’Connor to the Supreme Court, her views on abortion became a source of intense speculation. Photograph...
Oct 23, 2018 · PHOENIX. Sandra Day O'Connor voted to uphold Roe v. Wade despite personal opinions on abortion. Michael Kiefer. The Republic | azcentral.com. 0:05. 0:56. When Sandra Day O'Connor...
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- Akron v. Akron Center For Reproductive Health
- Planned Parenthood v. Casey
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Nobody knew what her views were, but the right to life crowd knew was she wasn’t marching along with them. So she got some frantically programmed questions at her Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, and she just played it very straight. She said at one point: I don’t support abortion; abortion is abhorrent to me, but I’m not a woman who’s about to ...
In 1992, it really did look as if the court was about to overturn Roe v. Wade, because Justice Brennan had retired, replaced by Justice Souter. Thurgood Marshall had retired, replaced by Clarence Thomas. There was no longer the original Roe v. Wademajority. They were gone. So the case came to the court. Like all of these cases, it came as a set of ...
It was an example, really, of kind of O’Connor-ism in a sense of we can do what makes us feel comfortable. There are things we don’t like about Roe v. Wade, but there’s things we really don’t like about just getting rid of it. And so this is what we’re coming out with. And this is what has basically held since 1992. Her strength as a justice was no...
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Dec 1, 2023 · Sandra Day O’Connor's influence could best be seen in the Supreme Court's court’s rulings on abortion. In one such decision, she balked at letting states outlaw most abortions, refusing in 1989 to join four other justices who were ready to reverse the 1973 Roe v.
“Some of us as individuals find abortion offensive to our most basic principles or morality, but that cannot control our decision,' she said. 'Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code.” ― Joan Biskupic, Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice
Oct 26, 2018 · Explainers. Politics. How Sandra Day O’Connor’s legacy could make it easier to gut abortion rights. Her most influential abortion decision may contain the seeds of Roe v....
