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...long-simmering issue would come to a boil again just before the Republican Convention gets under way in Houston in August. The day after the court took the case, the streets of Washington offered a symbolic preview of the fight to come. To mark the 19th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that made abortion a federally protected right, pro-choice and pro-life demonstrators squared off in photo-op warfare...
...recent years, the court's new conservative majority has been subjecting Roe to what looks like a reversal in slow motion. While never discarding the right to abortion altogether, the Justices have interpreted it so narrowly that states are now free to enact restrictions that would have been struck down in earlier years. The Pennsylvania case could complete the process -- especially now that conservative Clarence Thomas has probably tipped the court even further to the right...
...question requires minors to get parental consent and wives to notify their husbands before having abortions. It also obliges doctors to inform abortion seekers about potential medical complications and mandates a 24-hour waiting period. Though the court could use the case to overturn Roe, it is more likely to rule narrowly on the merits of the Pennsylvania law. That could still open the way to a flood of other state restrictions...
...quality Bush badly wants in his platform chief. White House moderates are still hoping to include wording in the platform's preamble that would make it clear that the G.O.P. is "nonexclusionary" on the abortion issue. That lukewarm invitation will be cold comfort to pro-choice voters if Roe is gutted...
...Court Aims at Roe v. Wade...