Blackmun Papers Detail Road to 'Roe'
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The first page of Blackmun's May 18, 1972, first draft opinion in Roe v. Wade.
The collected papers of the late Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, author of the Roe v. Wade decision, detail how Blackmun came to write the critical decision -- even though he was the court's most junior justice at the time. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.
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