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We Need Not Resolve The Difficult Question Of When Life Begins. When Those Trained In The Respective Disciplines Of Medicine, Philosophy, And Theology Are Unable To Arrive At Any Consensus, The Judiciary, At This Point In The Development Of Man's Knowledge, Is Not In A Position To Speculate As To The Answer.

By Placing Discretion In The Hands Of An Official To Grant Or Deny A License, Such A Statute Creates A Threat Of Censorship That By Its Very Existence Chills Free Speech.

From This Day Forward, I No Longer Shall Tinker With The Machinery Of Death. For More Than 20 Years I Have Endeavored - Indeed, I Have Struggled - Along With A Majority Of This Court, To Develop Procedural And Substantive Rules That Would Lend More Than The Mere Appearance Of Fairness To The Death Penalty Endeavor. Rather Than Continue To Coddle The Court's Delusion That The Desired Level Of Fairness Has Been Achieved And The Need For Regulation Eviscerated, I Feel Morally And Intellectually Obligated To Concede That The Death Penalty Experiment Has Failed.

I Am More Optimistic Though, That This Court Will Eventually Conclude That The Effort To Eliminate Arbitrariness While Preserving Fairness In The Infliction Of [death] Is So Plainly Doomed To Failure That Is - And The Death Penalty - Must Be Abandoned Altogether. I May Not Live To See That Day, But I Have Faith That Eventually It Will Arrive.

The Right To Privacy... Is Broad Enough To Encompass A Woman's Decision Whether Or Not To Terminate Her Pregnancy.