Shannen Coffin details for NRO Elena Kagan’s role as a Clinton adviser in rewriting the science of partial-birth abortion, including her apparent strong-arming of a group of obstetricians into reversing themselves 180-degrees on whether there were cases in which the procedure could save the life of the mother.

The blogosphere is already starting to get the word out — Powerline, Volokh Conspiracy, AmSpec, Gateway Pundit, and Patterico have all written dispatches on the story — but the more important question is whether the Senate Judiciary Committee will confront Kagan with the charges.