The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will reconsider the constitutionality of a partial-birth abortion ban it struck down in a 5-4 decision in 2000. The deciding vote was cast by the ever-indecisive Sandra Day O'Connor, who has been replaced on the court by Bush appointee Samuel Alito.
The AP report of this story is fraught with bias and loaded language. AP writer Gina Holland's pro-abortion and anti-Bush administration personal beliefs are readily apparent in her writing, as she speaks of new Justices Roberts and Alito as "the two men that President Bush has recently installed on the court" and refers to the grisly procedure known as partial-birth abortion in typical liberal/pro-abortion jargon, calling it "a type of late-term abortion" and "the so-called partial birth abortion" (all emphasis added). She also defends the practice, claiming that "doctors who perform the procedure contend that it is the safest method of abortion when the mother's health is threatened."
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