Mr Roe writes:American law gives more authority to managers and corporate directors than to shareholders.
A longtime Keats scholar and chair of the Keats Foundation, Roe writes with clear feeling about the poet's tragically short life, rendering an especially poignant portrait of Keats, at thirteen, reading "as if pacing himself to go the distance".
When Washington's Arena Stage announced, last February, that it would stage "Roe," written by Lisa Loomer and commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, it seemed the production would coincide with another historic moment: a fiercely pro-choice woman's ascension to the nation's highest office.
"Roe was written in a way that allowed its critics to argue that the court was creating out of whole cloth a brand new constitutional right," Mr. Boutrous said.
"Before Roe," they wrote, "despite broad popular support, liberalization of abortion law had all but come to a halt in the face of concerted opposition by a Catholic-led minority.
"The two greatest tragedies in our country — slavery and abortion — relied on similar reasoning and activist justices at the U.S. Supreme Court, first in the Dred Scott decision, and later in Roe," he wrote.
At the end of the interviews, Professor Koh asked whether writing Roe v. Wade "was a piece of good luck or bad luck".
Harry A. Blackmun, a Nixon appointee best known for writing the Roe v. Wade ruling, retired at 85, under Mr. Clinton.
Judge Wood, for example, clerked for Harry Blackmun, the justice who wrote Roe v Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalised abortion nationwide.
Justice Harry A. Blackmun, writing the majority decision in Roe v. Wade in 1973, cited the June 1971 edition of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the government's public health journal, to support one contention in his argument for legalizing abortion.
Photo by Roe Ethridge These stories are part of a novel I'm writing, and the novel is about how we create the idea of utopia, and then what happens to that idea.
