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fense at their running for office on anti-abortion platforms. Mayor Poelker was “one whom the record shows campaigned on the issue of closing public hospitals to non-therapeutic abortions.” The majority of voters who elected him were described, strangely, as a “presumed majority.” The majority was declared to have acted “punitively.” “This,” Justice Blackmun declared with hauteur, “is not the kind of thing for which our Constitution stands.”