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Quotation from Roe v. Wade by Supreme Court of the United States
“We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins.”
Roe v. Wade, Opinion of the Court (Justice Blackmun), Part IX-B (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource))
Blackmun responds to Texas's argument that life begins at conception by declining to decide a question on which, he says, medicine, philosophy and theology have not agreed.
Citation: "We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins." — Supreme Court of the United States, Roe v. Wade, Opinion of the Court (Justice Blackmun), Part IX-B (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource)). (id roe-v-wade-q3)
Portrait: Justice Blackmun Official, Unknown, Public domain.
