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Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.
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It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
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It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation.
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The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.
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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
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All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.
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Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.
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She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.
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When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
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Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.
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I would not like to be the only woman on the court.
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So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
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I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.
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Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
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