1.0 link 46398 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-r-stone/our-faithbased-justices_b_46398.html In Gonzales v. Carhart, the Supreme Court, in a five-to-four decision, upheld the constitutionality of a federal law prohibiting so-called "partial birth abortions" (properly described as "intact dilation and evacuation" or "intact D & E") despite the absence of an exception to protect the health of the woman. Gonzales reversed an earlier decision, Stenberg v. Carhart, in which the Court had held a virtually identical state law unconstitutional, primarily because it failed to include an exception to protect the health...

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