SUPREME COURT TAKES UP ABORTION

From AP:

Court Taking Up Abortion Notification

The Supreme Court, re-entering the politically charged abortion debate, agreed Monday to hear a state appeal seeking to reinstate a law requiring parental notification before minors can terminate their pregnancies.

Justices will review a lower court ruling that struck down New Hampshire's parental notification law. The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the 2003 law was unconstitutional because it didn't provide an exception to protect the minor's health in the event of a medical emergency.

The decision to review the emotional case, which came amid wide speculation that Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's retirement is looming, will be heard in the next term beginning in October. Liberal groups have vowed to fight any Rehnquist replacement who opposes the high court's landmark 1973 decision legalizing abortion.

Surely, this will only add fuel to the filibuster fire.

Pro-abortion activists are no doubt in a panic. Nancy Keenan, NARAL's president, is probably lobbying for some air time on this evening's network newscasts right now.

The Culture of Death crowd has to be concerned. They moan about government's intrusion into the private matters of citizens; yet they have no problem thrusting their morality (immorality) into families by infringing on the authority of parents. Somehow, they see no inconsistency there.

The parental notification issue, much like the debate over the partial-birth abortion procedure, shows how extreme and out of the mainstream these liberals/Democrats really are.