Roe and Doe

Here is an article which explains many of the historical factors that went in to the deadliest Supreme Court decisions ever.

"Though Roe got all the attention, I think it is fair to say that Doe, decided on the same day, was the more ominous of the two decisions. It was Doe that signaled the doom of legislative efforts to provide even modest protection of unborn life."...

"Who but a madman or a prophet would have imagined, as novelist Walker Percy did, that a whole industry of profitable “Qualitarian Centers” would spring up, where... doctors would "respect the right of an unwanted child not to have to endure a life of suffering"?

Go read the whole thing - at least it ends on a hopeful note.