In the long and winding road from Bray to the 8th Circuit Ct. of Appeals decision last week in Planned Parenthood v Rounds, et al., arising out of South Dakota, we've been put through some headspinning and conflated polemics by antiabortion activists and lawyers and legislators. In a law review published recently, after the Supreme Court's funky rulings in Gonzales v Carhart but prior to the 8th Circuit opinion, Ronald Turner says of the "women's regret" strategy:I recommend reading the rest---Check it out HERE.
“Positing the postabortion syndrome in books and articles; determinedly adhering to the theory in the face of the opposition of scientists and established organizations and others; filing amicus briefs calling judicial attention to antiabortion advocates’ concerns about “women’s regret” and postabortion psychological and other problems; obtaining express recognition of those concerns in a published opinion by a federal appellate court judge; playing an active and prominent role in South Dakota’s study of and effort to outlaw abortion: all of these actions were part of a committed and perseverant campaign to rewrite the narrative and to change the terms of the abortion-rights debate. This sustained politico-legal movement has now achieved one of the desired objectives of the antiabortion position—the Supreme Court’s placement of its imprimatur on the “women’s regret” rationale.”
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Insight into the Anti-Choice Movement
There was a post on Laura Flander’s gritTV that has some interesting insights in to the anti-choice movement and it’s influence in the 8th court circuit ruling:
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