Roe v. Wade | 4. Roe Against Wade
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The History of Abortion - Blackman's Research
With the supreme court out of session, blackman went back home to minnesota. When he got there, he set work space in one of the ornate wood panelled rooms at the mao clinic library. He looked up multiple translations of the hypocratic oath and confirmed that it prohibited abortion. But he also learned that most thinkers in ancient greece actually approved of abortion in defiance of the oath. We talked on the phone. I think we may have talked once a week, or once every ten days. This is how intense blackman was about research.
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