Brown, Rehnquist and Contemporary Politics

[Mark Graber]

I'm not sure what the argument is here.  If the point is that list
members did not know Professor Duncan is pro-life, I confess to have
guessed that already.  If the point is that any sensitivity to the
Holocaust warrants a pro-life position, well a great many of us who have
relatives killed at that time support Roe.  One might note in this vein
that Eastern European Jews, Hitler's major victims, tend to be among the
most pro-choice constituencies in the United States.  The same is true
for gays and lesbians (I do not know the tendencies of Romanis on this
matter).  Of course, statistical tendencies do not prove philophical
points, but they do suggest that morally decent people of equal
intelligence disagree on this one.  May I suggest that on abortion and
gay rights, we have reached the point of intellectually diminished
returns, so that unless anyone has anything truly new to say
philosophically, we might do without posts that do little more than
announce well known positions in ways probably intentionally designed to
provoke people to intempered responses.

Mark A. Graber (who is still waiting to hear of a contemporary elected
official whose electoral success has largely been based on very early
support for Brown)

>>> Rick Duncan <nebraskalawprof at yahoo.com> 09/12/05 9:28 AM >>>
Well said, Jim. 
 
Justice Blackmun's Holocaust both drew me to work in constitutional law,
and poisoned constitutional law in my heart. Roe's existence makes it
impossible for me to respect the Court, or to love my country. More than
30 years after the decree in Roe was handed down, I find it difficult to
believe that the City on the Hill has become a death camp for so many
millions of innocent, vulnerable human beings. I don't know whether
Harry Blackmun told fetus jokes, but his judicial legacy is one of
spilled innocent blood.
 
Rick Duncan