singled out blackman for his decision decriminalizing abortion. that s how the modern day abortion wars have been fought in this country from day one, from the roe vs. wade decision onward, with violence and the threat of violence always hanging in the air. when the supreme court cleared the way for legal abortion in every state, clinics sprang up all over the country to accommodate women who were coming out of the shadows to access this now legally-protected procedure. okay. is there an appointment for abortion? but as quickly as abortion clinics opened their doors, organized opponents gathered trying to shut them down. after the supreme court legalized abortion, an abortion clinic opened in st. louis. anti-abortion groups have been picketing ever since. they also got the legislator to throw up various roadblocks to abortion. by the 1980s and 90s this is what it was like to be an abortion provider in america.
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in 1970 tiller s father along with his mother, his sister and his brother-in-law were all killed in a plane crash. after that crash, george tiller left the navy to head back to wichita where he and his wife adopted his infant nephew and where he intended to wind down and eventually close up his father s practice in wichita. but then something happened. patients started asking the younger dr. tiller if he was going to take care of women the way his father had done. this was before roe vs. wade. abortion at the time was illegal in kansas. i was horrified because the only thing worse than a woman that would request an abortion was the physician that would do the abortion. so i was outraged. why would these nice people that my dad had been providing quality health care for them
most middle of the road, non-offensive guaranteed non-controversial guy to stick in that spot, justice blackman would go on just a couple of years later to write one of the most controversial u.s. supreme court opinions ever. the court said in a 7-2 decision that in the first three months of pregnancy only the woman and her physician may decide whether she may have an abortion. in the second three months all the state may do is regulate abortion procedures. and only in the final three months of pregnancy can the state forbid abortion. all 50 states are effective whatever their loss. it wasn t a close decision. it was decided by a big majority, 7-2. but it was harry blackman who wrote the opinion for the seven member majority, and for that reason harry blackman became the sort of face of that ruling, the face of roe vs. wade. five years after his death his papers were released and we
learned that harry blackman saved everything, everything, in the 1,500 plus boxes of documents he donated to the library of congress, you can find everything from hotel receipts to tennis scores to dance cards from childhood, private notes between justice in the supreme court. and it turns out when you are the guy who wrote the roe vs. wade decision and you re also a guy who keeps everything, that means you re a guy who has held onto a pile of hate mail and death wishes and threats. ten years after roe in 1983 according to reporting by the associated press, the supreme court had received 45,000 letters about roe vs. wade, most of them addressed to justice blackman. justice blackman said at the time, quote, we still receive, 8, 9, 10 letters a day. some are very supportive, very lovely messages, but most are very abusive.
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