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Article: ABORTION CASE SPOTLIGHTS O'CONNOR
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- June 28, 1989
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PHOTO - SANDRA DAY 0'CONNOR
THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION.
They are still arriving at her chambers at the rate of 1,000 a day, letters urging her alternately to respect or rescind the 1973 ruling that established a constitutional right to abortion.
Her eight colleagues are besieged, too, but it is to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor that partisans on both sides of the abortion case look for affirmation on the most divisive social issue of the day.
By fluke or by fate, the first woman to serve on the nation's highest court could cast the deciding vote this week in an abortion debate that has raged unabated for 16 years.
"It is conventional wisdom that she is ...