The Roe v. Wade (1973) Supreme Court:
Warren Burger: Nominated by Richard Nixon (R) - VOTED FOR BABY MURDER
William O. Douglas: Nominated by Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) - VOTED FOR BABY MURDER
William J. Brennan: Nominated by Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) - VOTED FOR BABY MURDER
Potter Stewart: Nominated by Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) - VOTED FOR BABY MURDER
Byron White: Nominated by John F. Kennedy (D) - VOTED AGAINST BABY MURDER
Thurgood Marshall: Nominated by Lyndon B. Johnson (D) - VOTED FOR BABY MURDER
Harry Blackmun: Nominated by Richard Nixon (R) - VOTED FOR BABY MURDER
Lewis F. Powell Jr.: Nominated by Richard Nixon (R) - VOTED FOR BABY MURDER
William Rehnquist: Nominated by Richard Nixon (R) - VOTED AGAINST BABY MURDER
Roe v. Wade was submitted to a majority (6:3) Republican-appointed Supreme Court, and passed 7:2, with FIVE Republican appointees voting in favor of murdering infants, and TWO Democrat appointees voting in favor of murdering infants. The two dissenters were evenly split; one Democrat appointee voting against murdering infants, and ONE Republican appointee voting against murdering infants.
Good question.
I pray she lives for another hundred years, in good health and happiness, converting some time before her soul leaves her body,
far away from the Supreme Court."Republicans now" are not the same as "Republicans then". In those days, the Republican party was the party of business interests, while the Democratic party was the party of the working man. Abortion wasn't an issue until 1973. The Republican party has morphed into the "pro-life" party (to the extent that anyone not a traditional, orthodox Catholic can
ever be
totally "pro-life", exceptions, exceptions, exceptions) and the Democratic party has become the "pro-choice" party. Supreme Court justices are now appointed pretty much straight down the party line. Ultimately, whoever controls the Senate controls who becomes a Supreme Court justice. The only difference, a Democrat-selected SCJ nominee can be "out and proud" concerning their support of abortion choice, whereas a Republican-selected SCJ nominee has to be very coy and reticent about the matter, repeating the mantra of "
Roe v Wade is settled law" (which discloses nothing about their stance, it's just a statement of fact in the here and now, not a prediction of whatever might one day happen to "unsettle" it).