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Justice Blackmun recalls letters blasting abortion ruling
Justice Harry A. Blackmun, author of the 1973 abortion decision, described in a Cable News Network interview how letter writers called him murderer butcher Pontius Pilate and even Dachau. He noted the court received more mail after the ruling than after the 1962 school prayer decision, with about 75 percent criticizing the decision.
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