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Roe vs. Wade (Dissenting Opinion, J. Rehnquist)

Roe vs. Wade ((Dissenting Opinion, J. Rehnquist)

Roe vs. Wade | 1973-01-22

The Dissent

MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST, dissenting.

Roe v. Wade

MR. JUSTICE BLACKMUN delivered the opinion of the Court.

MR. JUSTICE STEWART, concurring.

MR. JUSTICE REHNQUIST, dissenting.

The Court's opinion brings to the decision of this troubling question both extensive historical fact and a wealth of legal scholarship. While the opinion thus commands my respect, I find myself nonetheless in fundamental disagreement with those parts of it that invalidate the Texas statute in question, and therefore dissent.

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