Memo Cited 'Abortion Tragedy'

Roberts Backed Service for Fetuses

By Amy Goldstein and Jo Becker
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, August 16, 2005; Page A01

As a senior legal adviser to President Reagan, John G. Roberts Jr. concluded that a controversial memorial service for aborted fetuses, organized by a group of California doctors who opposed Roe v. Wade , was "an entirely appropriate means of calling attention to the abortion tragedy."