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ON the abortion issue, liberals are finding that some rights can be preserved by this new strategy.
In Illinois this week, parties in a case to be heard by the Supreme Court in December are attempting to negotiate a solution to their disagreement. The case centers around state regulations that require abortion clinics to meet strict and expensive standards.
The fact that both sides are willing to compromise says something about the issue of abortion. Attorney General Neil Hartigan, a democratic candidate for governor who has defended the clinic regulations, has been pressed by pro-choice groups to drop the case. It takes no political whiz to realize that...
THERE are, of course, serious problems with out-of-court settlements on constitutional cases. First, ad hoc settlements cannot guarantee a national solution to a problem. It may solve Illinois' abortion woes, or Michigan's gender discrimination case, but there will not be a national standard to protect such rights...
UNITED States legal history is filled with cases in which the Court has guaranteed and expanded our rights to free association, free speech and privacy against those who would deny them. It is phenomenal that civil libertarians are now trying to avoid the Court at any cost.