The Washington Post today highlights a rift in the anti-choice movement. Several groups believe the Supreme Court’s recent ruling upholding a ban on late-term abortions “was a disaster for their cause” because some late-term abortion procedures would still be legal. But James Dobson’s Focus on the Family supports the Court’s decision. Its reasoning:
“The old procedure [standard D&E], which is still legal, involves using forceps to pull the baby apart in utero, which means there is greater legal liability and danger of internal bleeding from a perforated uterus. So we firmly believe there will be fewer later-term abortions as a result of this ruling.”
In other words, Marty Lederman writes, the Court’s ruling “is especially desirable precisely because the primary alternative method of late-term abortion endangers the health of women.” Scott Lemieux has more.
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