Roe v. Wade

Supreme Court decision

By: Harry Andrew Blackmun

Date: January 22, 1973

Source: Roe v. Wade. 410 U.S. 113 (1973). Available online at http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=sear... ; website home page: http://www.caselaw.lp.findlaw.com (accessed March 1, 2003).

About the Author: Harry Andrew Blackmun (1908–1999) was born in Nashville, Illinois. He graduated from Harvard in 1929 and received his law degree from that same university. From 1950 to 1959 he served as the general counsel to the Mayo Clinic. Following that position, he was appointed a federal circuit court judge. In 1970, he was installed as a Supreme Court judge, a position he held until 1994. Blackmun was noted as a strong...

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