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When Roe was decided in 1973, she wrote, the justices maintained that an unwanted pregnancy would doom women to “a distressful life and future.”

In Roe, the Supreme Court said that an unwanted pregnancy could lead women to “a distressful life and future,” and in a 1992 case, Casey v.

Wade, the court, almost paternalistically, worried about the “distressful life and future” of a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy.

“I saw for myself that it is very distressful for anyone and especially females to go through that and be gawked and stared at,” he said.

Teiresias, the prophet who had brought so many distressful prophecies to the royal family, came to bring still another.