The Supreme Court's Roe V. Wade Opinion Wasn't Just About Women

The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision in Roe v. Wade is widely regarded as a huge victory for women's rights. But former Justice Harry Blackmun's opinion actually emphasizes the rights of doctors even more than women's freedoms, The New Yorker's Jeffrey Toobin writes. Blackmun was the top lawyer at Minnesota's famed Mayo Clinic before he became chief justice. In Roe v. Wade, the chief seemed to be tipping his hat to his former colleagues, Toobin says. The decision mentioned the word "physic...