"Roe turned to the question of whether life begins at some point prior to viability. The Roe Court-Justice Blackmun said that we need not resolve this difficult question we don’t know. Then Justice Blackmun specifically refrained from answering the question and then he-one of his arguments in the opinion, I think, is very peculiar. He says, we are not aware that in the taking of any census under the Census Clause a fetus has ever been counted. He has obviously never visited Chicago, where dead people can vote and are counted in the census. I have been counted twice in one census, though I am only one person and not two."
Roe v. Wade

January 1, 1970

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