In an earlier post I discussed the Supreme Court’s analysis of the so-called Partial Birth Abortion Act, concluding that the Court’s decision to uphold the Act was intellectually dishonest and inequitable. This post is about the purposes of the Act, as described by Congress, and the Act’s probable consequences for the practice of medicine [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Gonzales v. Carhart’
April 24, 2007
The Lie at the Heart of Gonzales v. Carhart
(My source for the quotations and information is Justice Kennedy’s majority decision and Justice Ginsburg’s dissent in Gonzales v. Carhart. These documents can be found here.)
Tom Joaquin
The Free Lance
By now, most people are aware of the summary holding in Gonzales v. Carhart: for the first time since Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court left [...]
April 19, 2007
The Supreme Court thinks Congress knows more about women’s health than does the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
And: Why I continue to be grateful for the lessons I learn from my mother
My mother, from whom I learned so much about social justice, freedom of thought, women’s potential, and the need to stand up for those who can’t stand up for themselves, sent the following news release from the American College of Obstetricians [...]
April 18, 2007
More on the Awfulness that is Gonzalez v. Carhart, the first successful nationwide banning of an abortion procedure
As if the outcome of the decision weren’t bad enough, there are aspects of the majority opinion that are especially offensive. For example:
The Act also recognizes that respect for human life finds an ultimate expression in a mother’s love for her child. Whether to have an abortion requires a difficult and painful moral decision, Casey, [...]
April 18, 2007
Shocking.
Today the US Supreme Court for the first time upheld a nationwide ban on an abortion procedure. The Court ruled on two challenges to the “Partial Birth Abortion Act” of 2003. One challenge was brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights on behalf of physicians who provide abortions (Gonzalez v. Carhart) and the other was [...]
