Quote by Potter Stewart
Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures bec

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. – Potter Stewart

Other quotes by Potter Stewart

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. – Potter Stewart

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Property
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The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion. – Potter Stewart

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History
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To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him. – Potter Stewart

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legal
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Other Quotes from
Medical
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The rich mans dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich mans wealth is built. – Samora Machel

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Medical

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable. – Paul Berg

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Medical

The patient has the right to accept your advice or to ignore it. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Medical

Medicine is the one place where all the show is stripped off the human drama. You, as doctors, will be in a position to see the human race stark naked — not only physically, but mentally and morally as well. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Medical

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