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Blackmun, appointed to the Supreme Court by Richard M. Nixon in 1970, may be most noted for writing the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1972 case that legalized abortion...
Though he is presumed to support abortion rights, for instance, Breyer seems unlikely to defend them as vigorously as Blackmun, who wrote Roe v. Wade. In 1990 Breyer rejected a Bush Administration "gag rule" that would have prevented the staff at federally supported family-planning clinics from even mentioning abortion. But a year earlier he dissented from a ruling that . granted a new hearing on the burdens imposed by a law requiring that minors notify both parents before undergoing an abortion. Accordingly, abortion- rights groups are viewing him with some trepidation...
...world's first government agencies devoted exclusively to safeguarding the environment. He passed the Clean Air Act. He started the War on Cancer. He helped the elderly and disabled by indexing Social Security payments to the cost of living. He was pro-choice; Nixon appointees provided the majority in Roe v. Wade...
...potential of genetic testing to detect a predisposition to illness or undesirable behavior will challenge the privacy rights of all Americans. Any of those issues could consume the court years from now -- or sooner. At Justice Blackmun's Senate confirmation hearings in 1970 -- just three years before he wrote Roe v. Wade -- no one asked him about abortion...
Justice Harry Blackmun, the U.S. Supreme Court's senior Justice and the author of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, announced his intention to step down. During his 24 years on the high bench, the 85-year-old Justice -- chosen by Richard Nixon in 1970 -- underwent a highly public evolution from conservative to liberal jurist, becoming one of the court's most passionate defenders of constitutional liberties for ordinary citizens. Retiring Senate majority leader George Mitchell was reported to be near the top of the Clinton list of possible replacements...