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Harry Blackmun1908–1999

The women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows.

Harry Blackmun on abortion

Concurrence/Dissent in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, 492 U.S. 490 (1989), at 538 and 560.

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In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
Concurring in part and dissenting in part, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978)
- Race
I fear for the future. I fear for the liberty and equality of the millions of women who have lived and come of age in the 16 years since Roe was decided.
Concurrence/Dissent in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, 492 U.S. 490 (1989), at 538 and 560.
- Abortion
- Women

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It is a very great poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother Teresa1910–1997Quoted in the U.S. Congressional Record, vol. 129 (June 27, 1983), p. 17319
I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Anderson-Reagan Presidential Debate (21 September 1980)
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion, because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother Teresa1910–1997Her Nobel Lecture given upon receiving the Peace Prize (December 11, 1979).

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