Justice Anthony Kennedy got cold feet and kept abortion legal

Published June 27, 2018 7:35pm ET



The Supreme Court was about to overturn Roe v. Wade, until Justice Anthony Kennedy got cold feet.

In 1992, Chief Justice William Rehnquist was in his chambers writing the majority decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a case that would have overturned legalized abortion. Unbeknownst to him, that’s when Kennedy got a note from the then-Justice Harry Blackmun.

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