On April 18

On this day in ...
... 2007 (5 years ago today), as IntLawGrrl Johanna E. Bond reported at the time, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a law banning late-term abortions. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote on behalf of a 5-Justice majority in Gonzales v. Carhart that the prohibition did not place an undue burden on women's right to choose whether to end a pregnancy, and thus did not contravene the decision in Roe v. Wade (1973). As we've posted, on this day Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (right) delivered from the bench a summary of her vigorous dissent from the Carhart majority's interpretation of its substantive due process precedent. (photo credit)

(Prior April 18 posts are here, here, here, here, and here.)