Is abortion doomed in the United States? Probably not. But with the changed equation on the U.S. Supreme Court -- Justice Samuel Alito succeeding Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in 2005 -- the prospects for more restrictions on a woman's right to an abortion seem to be rising. There is no abortion case now on the Supreme Court's docket, but one is coming up fast on the outside from the country's heartland, and the justices may find themselves having to deal with it before recessing for the summer in late June.
Two Oklahoma laws were scheduled to go into effect Sunday. One would have required women seeking an abortion to fill out a 10-page questionnaire about their personal history and the reasons they were seeking an abortion. Results would be posted on the Web. The other would require women seeking an abortion to listen to a doctor as he or she described the fetus during an ultrasound. UPI
Related: Justices shed light on process
In what Arizona law experts called a rare moment of public reflection from the U.S. Supreme Court, Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer appeared yesterday for a discussion of their methods for interpreting the Constitution. Scalia and Breyer voiced sharply opposing viewpoints that stem from a philosophical dichotomy between, in Scalia’s words, “originalism” (Scalia) and “evolutionary interpretation” (Breyer). The difference, the justices said, is that an originalist attempts to interpret constitutional statutes based on the intentions of their authors while an evolutionist attempts to describe how older values apply to present-day circumstances. AZ Daily Wildcat
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