The Nation - News from July 21, 1988

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens denied an emergency request by an Indiana man for an order preventing his estranged wife from having an abortion. Women’s rights groups charged that the petition to the high court justice was part of a systematic campaign by abortion foes to undermine the right of women to terminate unwanted pregnancies. Erin Conn, 23, had asked Stevens to bar his 19-year-old wife, Jennifer, from having an abortion.