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Focus (Forum & Focus)

May 3, 2007

The Sky Isn’t Falling on Abortion

Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - The U.S. Supreme Court has reopened the door a crack on the important issue of abortion, recognizing that this issue simply cannot be decided without the input of the people through the political process.

FORUM COLUMN

By John C. Eastman

      Ever since the Supreme Court's decision on April 18 upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act enacted by Congress in 2003, proponents of abortion rights have manifested a bit of hysteria about the coming age of doom.
      In these very pages a week ago, for example, Professor Susan Estrich announced, with extreme consternation, that "the Roberts Court has beg...

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