It may not come as a shock that I agree with Matt's conclusion that Roe was correctly decided on the merits. (For those who haven't seen it, I lay out.
Great point here by Brad Plumer. It's hard to take Harry Reid's criticism of the Supreme Court's appalling decision yesterday seriously given that he voted for it in the first.
For some reason, the forced pregnancy lobby doesn't understand the well-established contrarian analysis that upholding arbitrary abortion regulations is actually a good thing for reproductive freedom:Elated and emboldened, anti-abortion activists.
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.
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.
The decision is in. The Supreme Court today upheld the late-term abortion ban Congress passed after the Court struck down a similar ban a few years ago. Congress, if you.
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Wow. Here's what I stumbled across the other day while researching General John DeWitt's infamous (and unoriginal) "a Jap is a Jap" remark from WWII. I really was stricken mute.
