Carney: Honest Pro-Choicers Admit Roe vs. Wade Was A Horrible Decision

[Saturday], President Obama sang the praises of Roe v. Wade. On one level, that's not surprising -- he's the most pro-choice President ever. But Obama is also a Harvard Law School alumnus, and he used to teach Constitutional law, and so you would think he would see Roe for the embarassing bit of ideologically motivated junk it is.

Lest you think I'm just showing my bias, below is a collection of pro-choice scholars and journalists slamming the decision:

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Laurence Tribe — Harvard Law School. Lawyer for Al Gore in 2000:

“One of the most curious things about Roe is that, behind its own verbal smokescreen, the substantive judgment on which it rests is nowhere to be found.”

“The Supreme Court, 1972 Term—Foreword: Toward a Model of Roles in the Due Process of Life and Law,” 87 Harvard Law Review 1, 7 (1973).

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg — Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court:

“Roe, I believe, would have been more acceptable as a judicial decision if it had not gone beyond a ruling on the extreme statute before the court. … Heavy-handed judicial intervention was difficult to justify and appears to have provoked, not resolved, conflict.”

North Carolina Law Review, 1985

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(Read lots more at the Washington Examiner)