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Many in the pro-choice camp are decked in sackcloth and ash this week, mourning the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Gonzales v. Carhart, which upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion...
Though abortion activists are portraying Gonzales v. Carhart as a tragedy for reproductive rights, their alarmism may be a fundraising gimmick rather than a symbol of genuine concern for the Court’s decision. The PBA Ban Act won’t even dent abortion numbers, and Roe appears more like truly settled precedent than ever before. So the pro-choice crowd can dry their tears; abortion in America is alive and kicking...
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...