So the view you get is the tall doctor and the little woman who needs him.” Worse, the very sweep of the opinion violated RBG’s go-slow policy, which she believed was the only way to change minds. “It’s the woman in consultation with her doctor. “It’s not about the woman alone,” she remarked disdainfully. In the years that followed, RBG made no bones about her dislike of Justice Harry Blackmun’s opinion in the case. Seven justices declared that the constitutional right to privacy “is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy,” and struck down all fifty states’ abortion laws. Six weeks after the Struck case hit a wall, the Supreme Court handed down its twin decisions in Roe and Doe. As Carmon and Knizhnik explain, after Struck, Ruth Bader Ginsburg (“RBG”) continued to push for equal treatment regardless of a person’s sex or pregnancy. This case was granted cert, but was dismissed as moot in 1972 when the military voluntarily changed its policy in response to litigation. military policy of forcing pregnant female service members to make the following choice: either have an abortion or quit your job. This is an excerpt from the new book by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik, “Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.” In this excerpt, the authors begin their account with Struck, a case that challenged the then-existing U.S.
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