Laurence Tribe on Life
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Laurence Tribe, catalogued under life, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Laurence Tribe, entry #159778: "This book must... touch... deep and difficult questions about birth and death... life and its inception... sexuality and gender, about distribution of power."
Attributed to Laurence Tribe, entry #183011: "Who knows the names of the countless women who have died from painful and illegal abortions? What of the names of the countless babies who would have been born..."
4 Quotes by Laurence Tribe on Life
"This book must... touch... deep and difficult questions about birth and death... life and its inception... sexuality and gender, about distribution of power."
"Who knows the names of the countless women who have died from painful and illegal abortions? What of the names of the countless babies who would have been born..."
"If forcing a woman to continue a pregnancy that will almost certainly kill her is impermissible, how different... to compel... a pregnancy that will probably shorten her life? Or... that will leave her life in shambles?"
"e should beware of "hearing" silences where nearly all readers, setting aside how they would like a particular controversy to end, identify determinative text... "The heart has its reasons," as Pascal famously said, "that reason does not know." Good enough. And those heartfelt reasons deserve a hearing. But when they defy reason, the meaning of living by the rule of law is that reason should prevail."