An email:

Did you catch this line in the New Republic piece on Brownback that you linked to: “Brownback was shocked to hear that abortion was so prevalent, that a 14-year-old girl could have an abortion without her parents knowing, and that the procedure was legal up to the minute of birth (which is not, in fact, true).” The author needs to read The Party of Death. . .

Yes, I did catch that line, and decided to ignore it. But the emailer is correct; Brownback was right, and Scheiber wrong. It’s not just that late-term abortion is theoretically legal everywhere in this country thanks to the Supreme Court, although it is. It is also practiced: Dr. George Tiller’s Wichita clinic is a notorious provider of second- and third-trimester abortions.