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...Supreme Court should clarify stance on "partial-birth" abortion
Over 30 states have passed some sort of ban on partial-birth abortions, but 20 of them have been blocked or restricted in enforcing the ban by the courts. Just a day after the Senate failed to override the President's veto of the partial-birth abortion bill, a federal appeals court upheld Illinois and Wisconsin bans of the procedure, virtually ensuring that the issue will go to the Supreme Court...
...high time that the Supreme Court steps in to clarify and protect the right which it affirmed for women under Roe v. Wade and which has been slowly undermined ever since. States have severely limited a woman's access to abortion through waiting periods and parental consent laws, while the federal government has denied access to abortions to poor women through the Hyde Amendment which mandates that no federal funds can be used to pay for an abortion...
...current Supreme Court is not likely to hand down a judgement allowing the partial-birth abortion procedure to be used indiscriminately. Even the Roe v. Wade ruling allowed individual states to make laws discouraging abortions in the third trimester. However, the Court should, and hopefully will, reaffirm the protection for cases in which a woman's health is endangered...
...other case, the Fourth District of Illinois upheld a 31-year-old federal statute - passed by Congress just two years after the Miranda decision - that said voluntarily given confessions are admissible evidence, even when the accused aren't read their rights. The law had never before been tested in court, but the Fourth District opined that Miranda was a ruling on procedure, and not a constitutional interpretation, and therefore need not be upheld. "Despite the ambiguity, courts around the country basically agreed with Miranda and have not been looking to force the issue," says Cohen. "The Fourth Circuit Court...