Justice(s) Matter

Wingnuts in robes:

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling written by swing vote Justice Anthony Kennedy, upheld a federal ban on late-term abortion procedures.

It was the first time the court banned a specific procedure in a case over how -- not whether -- to perform an abortion. The decision reverses lower court rulings that had held the federal law was unconstitutional because it lacked a health exception for the mother, as required by earlier Supreme Court precedents. Congress approved the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban in 2003, placing new federal restrictions on some late-term abortion procedures.

Not Kennedy, mind you, but our new hacktacular Justices along with the old ones.

I thought we stopped telling people what they could and could not do with their bodies when we got rid of slavery...