'What this means is that a constitutional right that have had in this country for 50 years, pushing three generations, is gone. It is gone overnight, and it is now up to the politicians,' Toobin said after Politico published a leaked opinion draft suggesting the Supreme Court has voted to overturn Roe v. 'This is a constitutional earthquake if it stands.' Wade, the landmark abortion rights decision.
Toobin previously argued that state laws banning abortion after six weeks were unfair to married men seeking to pressure their much younger mistresses to end the pregnancy. The CNN legal analyst found himself in a similar situation years ago as the result of a prolonged extramarital affair with Casey Greenfield, the twenty-something daughter of Toobin's then-colleague Jeff Greenfield.Īfter knocking up his mistress in 2008, Toobin 'questioned the paternity, balked at submitting to a test, and vowed to take no responsibility for a baby he wasn't sure was his,' according to the New York Times.
Another source claimed that 'when Casey wouldn't have an abortion, Jeff told her she was going to regret it, that she shouldn't expect any help from him.' (It was.) He also offered Greenfield 'money if she'd have an abortion,' a source told the New York Daily News.
