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...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--John Roberts and Samuel Alito--didn't join them. That may bode well for the future of Roe v. Wade...
...always think it is a good idea to evaluate and to make sure your practices are the best they can be,” said Scott V. Edwards, Agassiz professor of zoology, who has served on the board since the beginning of this academic year...
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...
...Make no mistake, abortion opponents won big in this case, Gonzales v. Carhart. It's the first time that the court has blessed a federal ban on an abortion method, and a serious blow to the longstanding rule that abortion restrictions must permit the procedure when necessary to preserve a woman's health. The slim majority here - five conservative justices led by Anthony Kennedy - skirted that rule by saying medical experts can't agree whether a woman would ever need this method to stay healthy (the law does contain an exception if the woman's life is at stake...
...best news for abortion-rights supporters may be what didn't happen in this case. We've all been waiting to see where the court's two Bush appointees - Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito - stand on Roe v. Wade, and when given the chance to repudiate it in this case, both justices declined. That opportunity came in the form of a separate opinion that Justice Clarence Thomas wrote and Scalia joined but both Roberts and Alito did not endorse - a concurrence that not only supports the majority, but goes so far as to say there shouldn...