I cannot understand why those who acknowledge that, in the opening words
of Justince O'Connor's concurrence, "[t]he issue of abortion is one of the
most contentious and controversial in contemporary American society,"
persist in the belief that this Court, armed with neither constitutional
text nor accepted tradition, can resolve that contention and controversy
rather than be consumed by it. If only for the sake of its own
preservation, the Court should return this matter to the people---where the
Constitution, by its silence on the subject, left it. -- Justice
Antonin Scalia, Stenberg v. Carhart (dissent)
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