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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...
...that the decision “severely eroded the constitutional respect and protection accorded to women.” Likewise, Ellen R. Malcolm of EMILY’s List laments that the justices have “so whittled away at the basic reproductive rights of women that Roe [v. Wade] is hanging by a thread...
...accordance with the precedent from the Roe-affirming Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Court took up the question of whether the ban of IDX placed an “undue burden” on a woman’s right to abortion. The Court decided that the ban did not unduly burden women because IDX is such a rare procedure (according to the Guttmacher Institute, only 0.17 percent of abortions in 2000 were IDX) and because the ban clearly did not restrict the much more widely-used (and closely substitutable) second-trimester abortion procedure, Dilation and Evacuation...
...though there is scientific disagreement on this point, the Court stands firmly on precedent in allowing the law to stand; as 1974’s Marshall v. U.S. explained, “in areas fraught with medical and scientific uncertainties, legislative options must be especially broad...
...plot moves along, the realities of German life outside the Kit Kat Klub become more apparent, and the second act is accordingly much grimmer. Aspiring politician Ernst Ludwig (Daniel V. Kroop ’10) becomes the face of the growing Nazi party; as he rises, both the relationships that developed in the first act fall apart...