The Supreme Court Sows Confusion about Abortion Law
On the Hellerstedt case (2016) and the scope of state abortion laws.
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Why Won’t the Supreme Court Hear Abortion Cases?
The Supreme Court& decided today not to hear Arizona’s appeal in defense of its 20-week limit on abortion, but that doesn’t mean 20-week limits are unconstitutional. The Court simply declined ...
U.S. Appeals Court Eases the Burden on Texas to Enact Abortion Safety Regulations
When a Texas federal district court in Planned Parenthood v. Abbott struck down and issued an injunction against two sections of Texas’s health and safety regulations on abortion clinics on ...
Progress after Casey
Twenty years ago today, on Monday, June 29, 1992, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a tragic mistake in the view of pro-life Americans ...
Is Kagan’s Idea of Judicial Restraint Merely Internal?
William Rehnquist has been cited as a justice who, like Elena Kagan, was never a judge before his nomination to the Supreme Court. (Rehnquist was an assistant attorney general in ...
Feingold and Kagan on the Doe ‘Health’ Exception
This morning, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) got Elena Kagan to confirm that she believes that “Roe and Doe require” that any state “regulation” of abortion protect the “health” of ...
Overemphasis on Abortion in Confirmation Hearings: A Response to Adam Liptak
Adam Liptak had an extensive article in Monday’s New York Times on a recent study of the questions and answers in Supreme Court nomination hearings between 1939 and 2009. In ...
The Blackmun Myth
Last month, a federal court upheld South Dakota’s law that women seeking abortion be informed “that the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being.” ...
An Aborted History
When the Supreme Court revisits partial-birth abortion on November 8, the history of abortion and infanticide will be front and center. History will be front and center because some justices ...
The Supreme Court’s Back Alley
One of the reasons why American medicine is the envy of the world is that it has increasingly emphasized “evidence-based medicine” over the last 50 years. This means that new ...