(Supreme)Court Taking Up Abortion Notification

HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer
19 minutes ago


WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court, re-entering the abortion debate amid burgeoning speculation about Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's retirement, agreed Monday to hear an appeal of a decision striking down a state parental notification law.


Justices will review a lower court ruling that struck down such a law in New Hampshire. The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the 2003 law was unconstitutional because it didn't provide an exception to protect the minor's health in the event of a medical emergency.

The decision to review the emotional case, which also comes at a time of bitterly partisan fighting in the Senate over President Bush's nominees for federal judgeships, will be heard in the next term beginning in October. Liberal groups have vowed to fight any Rehnquist replacement who opposes the high court's landmark 1973 decision legalizing abortion.

In their appeal, New Hampshire officials argued that the abortion law need not have an "explicit health exception" because other state provisions call for exceptions when the mother's health is at risk. They also asked justices to clarify the legal standard that is applied when reviewing the constitutionality of abortion laws.

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If the fillabuster is lost in the Senate and Reinquist steps down in the next few months, will there be enough time for the christofascists to install a anti-abortion replacement? Or, is this announcement today an attempt by the Supremes to diffuse the impetus behind the fillabuster fight?

JB

Honestly, doesn't the Supreme Court stand for anything?

All the pieces are being laid into place for complete goverment control of a person's body.

According to these fascist fuckers, gOD and the government own your body, not yourself.

JB