CHANGE THE SUBJECT, ALREADY. The Supreme Court made the historical (and very scary) decision this morning to uphold the Bush Administration 2003 �partial-birth� abortion ban, which affects certain abortion procedures as early as the 12th week of pregnancy and contains no exception at all for women�s health. This limiting of abortion rights is clearly unconstitutional as defined by Roe and Casey.

I�ve been watching CNN all day and so far, it�s all Virginia Tech, all the time. Not even a mention of the Court�s decision.

—Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.