As an antidote against the inevitable chorus of fake moderates arguing that today's abortion case is no big deal, four things to keep in mind as you ponder today's decision:Don't take assertions by the Court about whether they're overturning precedents or not at face value....
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As Bean notes below, the Supreme Court has upheld the Federal "Partial Birth" abortion ban, which as I have argued in detail was 1)inevitable with Alito's appointment to the Court.
Mexico City is on the verge of decriminalizing abortion. The New York Times story on it is really first-rate. What I like about it is that it makes clear what.
Prof. B has a good post about the strange plan in Texas to pay $500 to have babies and give them for adoption. She hits the most obvious problem: Honey, $500 isn't even going to pay for the extra groceries you'll eat during a pregnancy....
I have a post at TAPPED about the strange new conservative trend toward talking about abortion as weakening America's precious baby supply, an argument that (assuming conservatism wants to preserve.
Commenter (and blogger) Bean raises some interesting points with respect to this post. I'll respond to each point separately:First, while I agree that the current iteration of abortion law is.
Yglesias notes that Maverick McStraightTalk "has the misfortune of being both the most conservative candidate in the race and the one most hated by conservatives." It's quite strange, and is one of the ways in wish the Bush personality cult will hurt the GOP going...
Jessie Hill has an interesting three-part series about potentially overturning Roe at PrawfsBlawg. [HT: Volokh Conspiracy.] The long version of what I have to say on the issue can be.
Finally the New York Times adds a strong (self-described) feminist voice to its op-ed pages:Similarly, Giuliani respects the distinctive work of judges and the separate role of the state legislatures..
Good news from the Great Faces, Great Places state:An abortion ban with exceptions for rape, incest and health of the mother was rejected Wednesday morning by legislative committee in Pierre.The Senate State Affairs Committee just voted 8 to 1 to kill HB1293 without a vote...
I have a post up at TAPPED about Portugal's coming liberalization of its draconian abortion laws. I wanted to pick out another excerpt from the genuinely terrific Times article about.
Sara Anderson brings our attention to another innovation in the irrational abortion regulation obstacle course, this one from the Idaho legislature:A North Idaho lawmaker wants to make it a crime.