Abortion brawl draws Ruth Bader Ginsburg's legacy on Roe v. Wade into the spotlight

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The second woman to serve on the Supreme Court after Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Ginsburg was an ardent supporter of the right to abortion.
52% : The court reiterated that holding 19 years later in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
50% : "She was critical of the court's reasoning but not the bottom-line conclusion that the right to abortion is guaranteed by the Constitution."
39% : As the nation's preeminent women's rights lawyer and an associate justice who became the leader of the Supreme Court's liberal wing, Ginsburg had reservations about the legal reasoning in Roe, the 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion.
36% : "As the court has stated, the 'goal of preventing abortion' does not constitute 'invidiously discriminatory animus against women.'
34% : Precedent: A look at past Supreme Court decisions that have been overturned "The portrayal of her as an opponent of constitutional protections for abortion reflected in Roe is a bit of a cheat," said David Gans with the liberal Constitutional Accountability Center.
33% : The court's decision to wade back into abortion in the Mississippi case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, captured national attention and inspired protests before Alito's draft was leaked to Politico in early May.
15% : Guns, climate: The Supreme Court is juggling major controversies besides abortion History: Justice Alito's history of abortion in leaked draft opinion?
14% : "Roe may have 'halted a political process,' 'prolonged divisiveness,' and 'deferred stable settlement of the issue'" of abortion, Alito wrote in the draft, quoting from a lecture Ginsburg delivered at New York University months before President Bill Clinton nominated her to the Supreme Court.

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