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...president of the Harvard Libertarian Forum, said he disagreed with Heinz Kerry’s approach to the regulation of cosmetics. “We should be allowed to put whatever we want on our faces,” Harris said. “You should not ban those particular products, you should restrict the amount of pollutants that can be released by that process.” Kerry said the book was inspired by current events. “It’s 254 pages of recycled Attorney Gonzales emails,” he quipped...
...Supreme Court’s five-to-four ruling on the intact dilation and extraction method of abortion on Wednesday was hardly unexpected, given its shifting ideological balance. Nevertheless, the decision to uphold the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act marked many unfortunate firsts for the new Roberts Court. At best, this reversal of precedent is worrisome, poaching abortion rights today; at worst, it is simply wrong—the first step toward completely denying a woman’s right to choose tomorrow...
This first abortion case for Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’76 and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. is the first time the Supreme Court has supported a ban of any abortion method or barred a specific medical procedure. Despite being couched in the language of decisions past, the ruling in fact ignores the spirit of decades of precedent in order to set its own, dangerous, one. From here, there can be no question of the court’s intended direction, succinctly, albeit chillingly, put by the author of the majority opinion, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy...
Meanwhile, the court’s decision, with its virtual blanket ban that glibly dismisses the value of a woman’s health, stands to put women in danger today. Despite the ignorant claims of the court’s majority, intact dilation and extraction can rescue women from grave medical situations. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists supports the procedure as necessary at times and safest for late-term abortions. As upheld, the law only provides an exception when the woman’s life is at risk, denying doctors the broad discretion they must have...
...sonogram. Even the state's Republican Attorney General Henry McMaster has warned that it would be "illegal and improper for the state to force a person seeking an abortion to view an ultrasound image against her will." In Oklahoma, Governor Brad Henry this week vetoed legislation that would ban state facilities and employees from performing abortions, except in cases where the woman's life is at risk...