Fri 20 Apr 2007
Update: Ginsburg dissent
Posted by Daniel under Current events
According to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court’s decision Wednesday to uphold the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban of 2003 was a monumental mistake.
She writes: “In candor, the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, and the Court’s defense of it, cannot be understood as anything other than an effort to chip away at a right declared again and again by this Court — and with increasing comprehension of its centrality to women’s lives. A decision of the character the Court makes today should not have staying power.”
Let’s just hope too many women don’t die from back-alley abortions.
Read her full dissent here.
ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS ALERT: Read the Court’s majority opinion here.
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April 28th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
I found out about this through one of those “I care about politics” mailing lists that I generally don’t read.
At this point, my question, is this not news because “the news” doesn’t think so - that Spears latest hair cut is more important. Or that the people don’t care, much like with the vote by the court on (now lack of) property rights and god forbid the patriot act …
April 30th, 2007 at 10:42 am
It depends. I think that news is whatever people care about. If millions of people care about Britney Spears, as much as I hate to admit it, it’s news.
So-called “hard news” and entertainment may have become irreversibly entangled over the 20th century, but with more discerning news consumers, people will always be able to get what they want.
If you turn on your local nightly news, for example, you’ll probably find lots of stuff you don’t care about, but if you put on “Frontline,” you’ll be more likely to get what you want if you’re looking for hard news.
Keep up the comments, Denis!