A father's interest in having a child--perhaps his only child--may be unmatched by any other interest in his life. It is truly surprising that the state must assign a greater value to a mother's decision to cut off a potential human life by abortion than to a father's decision to let it mature into a live child.
William RehnquistThe "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.
William RehnquistPregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.
William RehnquistWe start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.
William Rehnquist