Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Pro-Life Sentences

Scott Lemieux, The American Prospect
Republican-controlled state legislatures are passing a wave of restrictions on abortion. Now the courts are backing them up.Dissenting in Gonzales v. Carhart, the 2007 case that upheld a federal ban on "partial birth" abortion, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg charged that the majority "refuses to take [Planned Parenthood v.] Casey ... seriously." This inclination, not surprisingly, has filtered down to the lower federal courts as well. Two recent cases conspicuously refuse to take a woman's reproductive rights seriously, and indeed one judge failed to apply Casey at...

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