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Focus (Forum & Focus)

May 15, 2007

Returning Abortion Policy to the Legislative Branch

Forum Column – By Matthew McReynolds – Despite the competing choruses of exaltation and excoriation, the Supreme Court’s new abortion decision marks a retreat from judicial micromanagement of what is essentially a political controversy.

FORUM COLUMN

By Matthew McReynolds

     
      Much has been made of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Gonzales v. Carhart, 127 S.Ct. 1610 (2007), upholding the federal ban on partial-birth abortion. Yet to some extent, the competing choruses of exaltation and excoriation seem to miss the mark, primarily because of the media- and special-interest-driven fixation on Roe v. Wade, 41...

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