SCOTUS gets it right

Today's decision by the US Supreme Court in Gonzales vs Carhart upholding the 2003 Partial-Birth Abortion Ban marks the first step into the issue being returned to the people via their elected representatives.

From NR's Editors:

It is good that the Court has offered back a limited measure of democratic authority over abortion policy. The major theoretical concession in Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion — that the courts should make sure laws against partial-birth abortion are not misapplied — may not in practice prove important. Pro-abortion litigators, we suspect, are going to have a hard time finding cases in which laws against partial-birth abortion can plausibly be said to have been applied too broadly. But let’s not forget how far four justices are willing to go in defense of abortion.