
Abortion Contortions
Posted Thursday, June 29, 2000, at 9:00 PM ETOn Tuesday the Supreme Court struck down a Nebraska law outlawing "partial-birth" abortion. Last fall, Slate's Dahlia Lithwick described the oral arguments heard by the justices. And in 1998, Dr. Atul Gawande argued that "partial-birth" abortion is no more grisly than other, more common types of late-term abortion. For background on the abortion wars, read William Saletan's "Frame Game" on Roe vs. Wade's 25th anniversary, Franklin Foer's "Gist" on fetal viability, and Margaret Talbot's review of Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion Wars.
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