In honor of it's 35th Anniversary, here's my three part series on why Roe v Wade was correctly decided:Part IPart IIPart IIIThe short version is that 1)it's flatly false to say that the right identified in Roe had no previous doctrinal basis, and 2)properly understood...
reproductive freedom
Blustain and Friedman on "men's post-abortion syndrome." You can all but read the "moderate" Kennedy opinion now: "Although we have no reliable data to measure this phenomenon, it seems unexceptionable.
Mike Huckabee:And you also have states that not only practice abortion, but if Roe v. Wade is overturned, we haven’t won the battle. All we’ve done is now we’ve created.
I'm not going to get into the question of Juno and abortion because I reject the idea that the picture is a "brief" for or against anything; this might be an appropriate way to discuss an Aaron Sorkin project, but Diablo Cody seems like an...
Via Ann, Megan Carpentier finds that the "Medicare program spent $450 each on about 47,000" penis pumps, although "Medicaid (which serves low income Americans) only covers abortions in the case.
I see that Rudy Giuliani -- who Ann Althouse assured us in the august pages of the New York Times was a deeply principled federalist -- has come out in.
Ramesh Ponnuru objects to my post about Ron Paul and abortion, but fails to address most of the points. To respond to each of his arguments in turn:Ponnuru calls my argument that bans on "partial birth" objection do not protect fetal life -- and hence...
Ramesh Ponnuru makes an interesting point about Ron Paul: "What strikes me is what a throwback Paul is among libertarians. Hard money and anti-interventionism move him, but he seems utterly.
I actually agree with two points that Ross Douthat makes here. First, I think that there's a tendency to assume that Roe's popular support made its upholding inevitable, but this.
Alaska court throws out law requiring parental consent -- not notification, which is useless enough, but consent -- to obtain an abortion. [Via Ann.]
Garance has an interesting excerpt from a speech by John Kerry, in which he asserts that the Democrats are "too pro-choice" and E.J Dionne asks "Why do you think you.
President Bush today announced that he will award a Medal of Freedom to Henry Hyde...because Hyde is a strong defender of life. The Henry Hyde of the Hyde Amendment, which.