Justice O'Connor on Women's Rights

Justice O'Connor participated in an interview with the New York Times to promote her new website for children.  Though she declines to call herself a feminist, take note of what she does say:

 Do you call yourself a feminist?

I never did. I care very much about women and their progress. I didn’t go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.

So do you call yourself a feminist today?

I don’t call myself that.

Is there a label you prefer?

A fair judge and a hard worker.

(She also had some very nice things to say about Justice Ginsberg.)   While Justice O'Connor may not be thought of as a "feminist" and rejects that label, a parsing of her opinions in Ngyuen v. INS and the main portion of Planned Parenthood v. Casey - which essentially saved Roe - say enough about her judicial philosophy in this regard.

NLS