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Supporters of abortion rights certainly can't be happy that the Supreme Court upheld the federal law banning so-called partial birth abortions, but the decision does offer them a silver lining: an implicit message that may bode well for the future of Roe v. Wade, as well as two ways to attack the specific law again...
...court also turned back arguments that the law was too vague and an "undue burden" on the constitutional right. The law's challengers said its imprecision would stop not only "intact D&E" - the controversial process of removing the fetus whole (hence the phrase partial birth) - but also standard D&E, which involves removing the fetus in pieces. Together, the procedures account for most second-trimester abortions. But Kennedy, writing for the court majority of himself, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, John Roberts and Samuel Alito, said the statute was plenty precise, especially since a doctor couldn't violate it without...
...When a School Learns to Mourn The Gun Lobby's Counterattack Where Cho Bought His Deadly Weapon Behind the Killings, a Troubled Mind South Korea's Collective Guilt Inside Cho Seung Hui's Dorm How to Make Campuses Safer The Virginia Tech Victims A Partial Biographical List of The Dead
...When a School Learns to Mourn The Gun Lobby's Counterattack Where Cho Bought His Deadly Weapon Behind the Killings, a Troubled Mind South Korea's Collective Guilt Inside Cho Seung Hui's Dorm How to Make Campuses Safer The Virginia Tech Victims A Partial Biographical List of The Dead
...When a School Learns to Mourn The Gun Lobby's Counterattack Where Cho Bought His Deadly Weapon Behind the Killings, a Troubled Mind South Korea's Collective Guilt Inside Cho Seung Hui's Dorm How to Make Campuses Safer The Virginia Tech Victims A Partial Biographical List of The Dead