Whether he was right or wrong, he carried opinion with him, and was handsomely re-elected in 1995.
However, Carter Snead, a Notre Dame law professor who has studied abortion and bioethics, said Blackmun's opinion was wrong to dismantle state anti-abortion laws so sweepingly.
What is wrong with having an opinion?
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When I spoke to him yesterday The First Minister also dismissed the idea that Ed Miliband was on the wrong side of public opinion with his decision not to match Mr Cameron's referendum promise - at least not yet.
Partly because of the party's own record while in office, partly because they do not want to find themselves on the wrong side of public opinion, and not least because it is becoming increasingly clear that whoever forms a government after the next election will have to continue implementing the general austerity drive for years to come.
Adopting such an approach (as is so often the case with conventional opinion) is wrong.
Most of the lorry-drivers' compatriots see little wrong with this, say the opinion polls.
And I know that there will be differences of opinion as to whether a particular opinion was right or wrong.
But the problem, Mr Henderson emphasises, is not merely that the fad for corporate social responsibility is intellectually wrong, or that it poisons opinion against market capitalism.
"We took the players' opinion but it's wrong to say that the decision was made on that, we considered all points, " he said.
They have been sued numerous occasions yet never been held liable for giving a credit opinion, no matter how wrong or off base.
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With regard to the Knollenberg line on the science of global warming, "Major scientific opinion says they are dead wrong, " said Thompson of the EDF.
We've got to hand it to peripherals manufacturer Elecom for thinking outside the box and trying to solve a perceived problem with its new PRUMIE lineup of mice -- unfortunately, in our opinion, they addressed the wrong problem.
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In his opinion, Judge Simpson found nothing wrong with the provisions of the law that require poll workers to ask for photo identification before permitting people to cast their vote.
More than being wrong, the dismissal was, in my opinion, tremendously wrongheaded in its treatment of the prosecutors involved, and seemingly oblivious to the realities of a longlasting, complex, international investigation.
Let us stipulate that there's nothing wrong with a justice who starts out with one opinion but changes his mind as he reviews the facts and arguments.
Moreover given that Chairman Arafat is a respected figure in Palestine, and many people are guided by his opinion, I think it would be wrong to ignore it.
As an individual commentator, it is my considered opinion that the ads are inappropriate and wrong, and as a political analyst I feel strongly that many of these ads are indicative of how Super PACs poison our public dialogue.
Labour's lead is so large that, even if the opinion polls turn out to be as wrong as they were last time, and there is a late swing to the Tories, the Tories still look set to lose four seats, including those of Mr Forsyth and Malcolm Rifkind, the foreign secretary.
And the polls, far from being wrong before the vote, were a better guide to public opinion than was the result itself.
Wes Clark can legitimately contend that he was wrong back in the Fall of 2002 and that his considered opinion is what he says today, when he effectively repudiates his previous positions.
Gabriel Villalobos, a Spanish-language talk radio host in Phoenix, said many of his callers believe it is the wrong time for marches, fearful that that any unrest could sour public opinion.
Gabriel Villalobos, a Spanish-language talk radio host in Phoenix, said many of his callers believe it is the wrong time for marches, fearful that that any unrest could sour public opinion on immigration reform.
But Conservative Philip Davies accused the government of being "completely out of step with public opinion" and Mr Clarke of leading the country "in the wrong direction" on prison sentences.
Opinion polls show that most Italians agree with Mr Fini: Mr Berlusconi, they said, was wrong to say what he did.
When rating agencies get things wrong they rely on a defence of free speech, saying that their ratings were merely the expression of an opinion.
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"Anything that provokes an emotional reaction because it's done wrong can result in bad word of mouth, particularly when you have groups that value each other's opinion, " says Ms. Kahn.
Their lobbyists succeeded in convincing legislators that, as opposed to ratings agencies who have the same business model and independence conflicts and only rate bonds versus give an opinion on the financial statements as a whole, no one could think of anything auditors had done wrong that needed reforming.
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