PARTIAL DEATH OF CHOICE. I agree with Dana, Scott and Ezra on the implications of the SCOTUS decision. It is also useful to look at the wider context of this decision: It is about a rare abortion procedure only used in cases where the woman has not otherwise planned to terminate the pregnancy, where the pregnancy is often a desired one and where something is very wrong with the health of either the pregnant woman or her fetus.
Now add the absence of any concern for the woman's health in this ban, short of a direct threat to her life, and what do we get? A situation in which arguing for the woman's general rights for reproductive choice looks morally deficient. After all, if women carrying a desired fetus can be asked to sacrifice their own health in this way, what arguments can the rest of us women use?
--J. Goodrich
