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CORRECTION: Yesterday’s editorial “An Abortive Decision” said that last week’s decision in Gonzales v. Carhart was the first abortion case for Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’76 and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. In fact, Chief Justice Roberts sat on the Court when it decided Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood in January 2006. The Crimson regrets the error...
...Make no mistake, abortion opponents won big in this case, Gonzales v. Carhart. It's the first time that the court has blessed a federal ban on an abortion method, and a serious blow to the longstanding rule that abortion restrictions must permit the procedure when necessary to preserve a woman's health. The slim majority here - five conservative justices led by Anthony Kennedy - skirted that rule by saying medical experts can't agree whether a woman would ever need this method to stay healthy (the law does contain an exception if the woman's life is at stake...
...last decade. In 2003, however, Congress banned partial-birth abortions on the basis that they were not medically necessary. In reality, Smith said, these procedures safeguard against “hemorrhage, cervical scarring, [and] death,” among others. And now, another case, Gonzales v. Carhart, is before the court. Smith described the case as a legal battle turned medical seminar. Though she said that “lawyers hate medicine because it is so mysterious and indefinable,” members of the court were interested in the technicalities of an abortion. When asked about the future...
...stake here.Much has been made of the fact that Alito concurred with the 2000 opinion Planned Parenthood v. Farmer, which struck down a partial-birth abortion ban. But he was simply following the precedent of the Supreme Court’s ruling from earlier that year in Stenberg v. Carhart. We disagree that this concurrence demonstrates any sort of moderation in Alito’s views on abortion rights.Many of his other opinions—on civil rights, environmental protections, and gun control—are ultra-conservative and equally disturbing.In Chittister v. Department of Community and Economic...
...Leroy Carhart, the man challenging the Nebraska law, is a 58-year old retired Air Force lieutenant colonel. When the Nebraska legislature passed a law against performing partial-birth abortions--in fact a procedure medically known as dilation and extraction (D&X)-- Carhart found himself facing 20 years in jail for performing these abortions. That's twice the jail time he would have faced for performing abortions before Roe v. Wade. Carhart is the only doctor in Nebraska who will perform abortions in the second-trimester, before the fetus is viable. Roe v. Wade already allows states...