From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death, — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored--indeed,… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies. — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
The mandated description of fetal characteristics at two-week intervals, no matter how objective, is plainly overinclusive. [It is] not medical information that is always… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . .… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
This Court repeatedly has recognized that the whole subject of the domestic relations of husband and wife belongs to the laws of the States… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death, — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image