weddington2.jpgA few years ago I visited Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun’s grave at Arlington National Cemetery and seriously got chills. He’s credited with twisting the law and Constitution into a pretzel (a statement scholars on both sides of the abortion debate agree upon) to legalize abortion in 1973.
I expect to get the same chills if someday walking past the grave of Sarah Weddington, the attorney who successfully argued Roe v. Wade before the Supremes, unless she recants.
She may see that future:

Weddington told The Vancouver Sun in an interview in advance of her visit here that such a big win so early in life posed a bit of a personal dilemma.
“There were some years when I thought, ‘How will I trump Roe vs. Wade?’ I have finally made peace with the fact that I will never trump it.”
She knows exactly how the first line of her obituary will read… “Sarah Weddington, the woman who won Roe vs. Wade…. “

Obviously, at least to the world, Weddington considers Roe the high point of her life. Now in her mid-60s, she also considers it her earthly legacy. I can’t imagine the load of her thoughts, if she ever examines all facets.
Supreme death watch
Weddington can credit herself with pronouncing 50 million people dead. Ironically, there is one or two she doesn’t want to die….


The bond is that these deaths and lives are self-serving to Weddington. She must be in a morbid mood. Also from the Sun:

The court has four judges against legal abortion and four in favour. One of those four in favour is 87 years old [John Paul Stevens] and another is a rail-thin survivor of colon cancer [Ruth Bader Ginsburg]….
Weddington is so concerned, she recently made a point of attending an American Bar Association meeting because she heard the 87-year-old judge was speaking.

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“I wanted to shake his hand to see if he was vigorous and sharp. I was very reassured that he had a really good strong handshake.”
Weddington is hopeful, however, that either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama will become U.S. president….
“I do think we really do have a good chance but between now and November, a lot of different things can happen.”

Apparently, Weddington is always on a death watch of some sort.
[HT: LifeNews.com; current photo of Weddington courtesy of the Vancouver Sun]

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