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• New rhetoric in SCOTUS abortion ruling | Ginsburg says Kennedy's word choice goes too far (Associated Press)
  
  
• Ginsburg's dissent may yet prevail | The justice argues that equality, not privacy, is crucial in the abortion right (Cass R. Sunstein, Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• The last word | In yesterday's landmark abortion case, Kennedy was the Associate Justice he believes himself to be (Jan Crawford Greenburg, ABC News)
  
  
• Justices back ban on method of abortion | The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision promises to reframe the abortion debate and define the young Roberts court (The New York Times)
  
  
• Partial victory | The Supreme Court defers to Congress (Terry Eastland, The Weekly Standard)
  
  
• The face-off over partial-birth abortion | Judicial restraint and "facial" challenges (Edward Whelan, National Review Online)
  
  
• Abortion ruling raises backlash for Catholic justices | Observers raise questions about justices' Catholic faith after the Supreme Court's upholding of late-term abortion curbs (ABC News)
  
  

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Analysis: yay :

• Good may yet come | Gonzales v. Carhart opens up a possibility, albeit slight, for further restricting abortion. (Hadley Arkes, National Review Online)
  
  
• A 'small victory for civilization' | This is a small victory for civilization, for our humanity and humaneness toward the more than one million unwanted innocent babies who will have their hope of life dashed by abortion this year. Yes, they will still die, but at least they will have a better chance to do so with some modicum of dignity (Rick Santorum, The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
  
• The i's have it | Three cheers for pro-life incrementalism (Michael J. New, National Review Online)
  
  
• A welcome decision | Ruling bars barbaric practice, sets stage for more abortion curbs (Edward Whelan, USA Today)
  
  
• Put on your body armor | It's the number of votes, not constitutional reasoning, that matters (Michael M. Uhlmann, First Things)
  
  
• The Supreme Court and reasonable hope | I'm not convinced that this week's Supreme Court decision on partial-birth abortion is as good as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says it is, but I certainly hope she is right (Richard John Neuhaus, First Things)
  
  
• The challenge facing abortion-rights advocates | The challenge for abortion-rights advocates is not that this law will prevent abortions or impair the health of women getting them. It's that it treats the fetus as more than a disposable inconvenience—as a living entity entitled to a measure of respect and protection (Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Abortion ruling has Reid, Dems in tricky spot | 17 Democratic senators voted for the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act. But they were silent on the court's decision (Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times)
  
  
• The evolving issue of abortion | The pro-choicers are prepared to abandon the privacy argument to focus instead on gender discrimination (Lisa Fabrizio, The American Spectator)
  
  
• Carnage: Two versions | Last week, there were two stories about carnage -- the tragedy at Virginia Tech and the Supreme Court's decision on partial-birth abortion (Cal Thomas, The Washington Times)
  
  

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Analysis: boo :

• Adjudging a moral harm to women from abortions | The Supreme Court's decision to uphold the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, represents a major departure from how the court has framed the abortion issue for the past 34 years (The New York Times)
  
  
• Miscarriage of justice | The federal 'partial-birth' abortion ban has grave implications for all pregnant women, not only those seeking to end pregnancies (Lynn M. Paltrow, The American Prospect)
  
  

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