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Reasonable people who see the world as it exists—and not those whose vision is narrowed by ideological blinders—do not attempt to fit every political event into a predetermined theoretical framework. When considering issues—such as partial-birth abortion??only ideologues are content to dispense with the facts, for, as Rousseau famously summarized, they do not affect the question...
Last week’s Supreme Court decision that upheld the Congressional ban on “partial-birth abortion?? was the focus of an unconventional protest at Harvard Law School yesterday, when students from a law seminar carried a black cardboard coffin, symbolizing the decision in that case, through the rain from Langdell Hall to the Charles River. The group of seven women and one man who put on the mock funeral procession called themselves Women Against the Majority Opinion. They wore black and handed out fliers describing their protest as they walked through the streets...
...control their own bodies will quickly slip away. Indeed, any task that requires such a dramatic legal shift as outlawing abortion will only be accomplished by chipping away at existing protections. In fact, the common phrase for intact dilation and extraction—“partial-birth abortion??—is a conservative construct that has reframed entire schools of thought on the issue...
...implying that abortion itself is “right” or “good.” But a gap in communication between the pro-life and pro-choice camps has perpetually confounded the terms “pro-choice” and “pro-abortion?? in American culture...
...significant changes in the pro-life campaigns, according to Smith. First, Smith said, members of those opposed to a right to abortion began to obstruct access to abortion clinics and killed a number of abortion-providers. Second, Smith said, protesters started the “ban partial-birth abortion?? campaign. But despite increased protests, the courts largely protected abortion rights toward the end of the last decade. In 2003, however, Congress banned partial-birth abortions on the basis that they were not medically necessary. In reality, Smith said, these procedures safeguard against “hemorrhage, cervical scarring...