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She also argued that Congress' "findings" that D&X was never safe or healthy were actually written and presented by unqualified or suspect doctors with little experience in abortion medicine, and no experience in D&X.  On the contrary, when full evidence was taken and read next to this unqualified testimony (as it was at the district court level in the cases leading to ''Carhart''), D&X did possess some health benefits, which she cited.<ref>These are fairly gruesome, but in brief involve the possibility of D&E leaving damaging fetal remnants in the mother's uterus.</ref>  She also protested that the state's interest in fetal life was being advanced - after all, the Act saves no lives, only provides for a ''different'' method for abortion.
 
She also argued that Congress' "findings" that D&X was never safe or healthy were actually written and presented by unqualified or suspect doctors with little experience in abortion medicine, and no experience in D&X.  On the contrary, when full evidence was taken and read next to this unqualified testimony (as it was at the district court level in the cases leading to ''Carhart''), D&X did possess some health benefits, which she cited.<ref>These are fairly gruesome, but in brief involve the possibility of D&E leaving damaging fetal remnants in the mother's uterus.</ref>  She also protested that the state's interest in fetal life was being advanced - after all, the Act saves no lives, only provides for a ''different'' method for abortion.
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Ginsburg concluded her dissent by grounding the abortion case line within feminist thought, a perspective advocated by the late [[Blackmun|Justice Blackmun]].
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Ginsburg concluded her dissent by grounding the abortion case line within feminist thought, a perspective advocated by the late [[Harry Blackmun|Justice Blackmun]].
    
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