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)(Pri
or April 18 posts are here, here, here, here, and here.)
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