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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...
...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...
...right to control their own bodies will quickly slip away. Indeed, any task that requires such a dramatic legal shift as outlawing abortion will only be accomplished by chipping away at existing protections. In fact, the common phrase for intact dilation and extraction—“partial-birth abortion”—is a conservative construct that has reframed entire schools of thought on the issue...
...first time that any news account mentioned the procedure that other practitioners would later rename "intact dilation and extraction." It didn't make much of a stir at the time. But when the anti-abortion movement picked up on it in the mid-1990s and attached its own label - "partial birth abortion" - it became the rallying cry with which opponents began reversing many of the gains that the pro-choice movement had made over the previous two decades. This week, the Supreme Court upheld a federal ban on the procedure, which is a move that many believe will open...
...sure. From the outset, the issue of "partial birth abortion" has been fraught with dishonesty on both sides. Pro-choice advocates tried to make the case that it was rarely used, and only in the most extreme circumstances, such as in cases where a fetus was deformed. The first part was true, but only because the vast majority of abortions occur in the first 13 weeks of pregnancy, when this procedure would not even be a consideration. The latter was false, as reporters who went past the spin soon learned. Ruth Padawer of the Bergen Record found that...