This so-called partial birth abortion is just another form of murder, morally equivalent to infanticide.
The procedure -- called "partial birth abortion" by its critics -- is typically performed in the middle-to-late second trimester.
Policies that include more than appointing judges who will follow the law but also opposing taxpayer funded abortion and partial birth abortion.
The court upheld this term a so-called partial birth abortion law that was nearly identical to one that the court struck down seven years ago.
He has supported several measures to restrict abortion rights, ban partial-birth abortion and define human fetuses as children (with attendant government-provided health benefits).
Only four black congressmen voted to ban partial-birth abortion in 2003, though most blacks abhor the procedure.
He signed a bill to outlaw partial-birth abortion (and supported lots of smaller initiatives to limit abortion rights).
Ott's views on the partial-birth abortion ban and gay rights were not nearly as conservative as are Connelly's.
Mr Roberts may be able to produce a narrow ruling on partial-birth abortion.
However those involved in putting together the partial-birth abortion ban say they have taken that court's objections at that time into account.
Was it because Mr. Santorum, who authored the federal ban on partial-birth abortion and opposes gay marriage, was too conservative on social issues?
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Last week, for example, a court in New York declared unconstitutional a ban on so-called partial-birth abortion that Mr Bush signed into law in 2003.
He toes the most liberal line on late-term and partial-birth abortion.
They may win another one when the court revisits partial-birth abortion.
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There was the so-called partial-birth abortion issue, which, of course -- Senator Moynihan had it correctly -- it's more like infanticide than it is so-called abortion.
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Gallup recorded a significant drop in the number of Americans saying abortion should be legal in all cases, coincident with the emergence of a loud national debate over partial-birth abortion.
Mr Rove has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to tagging the senator as a tax-and-spend paleoliberal who believes in coddling drug addicts, abolishing the death penalty and protecting partial-birth abortion.
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The court will probably have new membership, and it seems very likely if Judge Alito is on the court, the court could switch 5-4 the other way, allowing the partial-birth abortion law to stand.
This time the target is a high-profile one: LeRoy Carhart, whose name will forever be linked with partial-birth abortion--the barely prenatal version of Kermit Gosnell's "snipping"--through a pair of Supreme Court cases: Stenberg v.
The five-member majority that has been in place since Justice Alito joined the Court in 2006 has upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, undermined the once-untouchable Brown, expanded Second Amendment rights in an unprecedented way, and issued a series of unrelated opinions favoring corporations.
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The new Obama talks about patriotism in a sea of American flags, praises General David Petraeus, the chief commander in Iraq, raises doubts about partial-birth abortion, agrees with the Supreme Court on gun rights, supports the death penalty for child-rapists and embraces faith-based social work.
The religious right, which fared poorly in the congressional elections, suffered a setback in two referendums as well: initiatives outlawing partial-birth abortion failed in Colorado and Washington, though Colorado voters did approve a separate measure requiring parental notification in the case of minors seeking abortions.
Supporting so-called partial-birth abortions, as too many liberals do, is abortion extremism.
In the partial abortion case, he wanted to preserve the previous case striking down state bans on partial birth abortions.
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