“Women know that only a judge with a keener sense of the importance of women's rights to decide their own destinies, a judge that has demonstrated a commitment to women's right to choose, is entitled to the highest privilege of occupying that pivotal Supreme Court seat.”

—  Gloria Allred

Gloria Allred. (September 13, 1990). Testimony before United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

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