Arlen Specter Roe Quotations

Judge Roberts, in your confirmation hearing for the circuit court, your testimony read to this effect, and it's been widely quoted: Roe is the settled law of the land. Do you mean settled for you, settled only for your capacity as a circuit judge, or settled beyond that?

It does not signify disagreement with Roe v. Wade,

Would you think that Roe might be a super-duper precedent?

When you talk about judges who would change the right of a woman to choose, who'd overturn Roe versus Wade, I think that is unlikely, ... And I have said that bluntly during the course of the campaign, that Roe versus Wade was inviolate.

There's nothing in his dissent which suggests disagreement with the underlying decision of Roe V. Wade,