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Quotation from Roe v. Wade by Supreme Court of the United States
“To reach its result, the Court necessarily has had to find within the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment a right that was apparently completely unknown to the drafters of the Amendment.”
Roe v. Wade, Dissent of Justice Rehnquist, Part II (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource))
Rehnquist introduces his survey of the state laws restricting abortion that were in force when the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted in 1868.
Citation: "To reach its result, the Court necessarily has had to find within the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment a right that was apparently completely unknown to the drafters of the Amendment." — Supreme Court of the United States, Roe v. Wade, Dissent of Justice Rehnquist, Part II (U.S. Reports text (Wikisource)). (id roe-v-wade-q6)
Portrait: Justice Blackmun Official, Unknown, Public domain.
