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...believe that prevention strategies should help women to reduce risks and teach men to seek explicit consent. However, Caldwell’s argument—which imputes partial blame and suspicion to the victims—reinforces the perspective that women invite rape by tempting others to attack them. This strategy of victim-blaming and intimidation is simply abhorrent, and only furthers attitudes permissive to sexual violence...
...Supreme Court upheld a federal law banning so-called partial-birth abortion in a 5-to-4 decision, which is a big win for abortion opponents: the law need not allow the procedure even when necessary to protect a woman's health. But the decision could have been worse for supporters of abortion rights. The court said a woman could still challenge the law by showing that she would get sick without the procedure. And while Justice Clarence Thomas, with Antonin Scalia, wrote separately that the right to abortion shouldn't exist, the court's two new Bush-appointed members...
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...
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