{"id":130073,"date":"2016-03-03T21:16:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T04:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/03\/women-justices-on-abortion-13.html"},"modified":"2016-03-03T21:16:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T04:16:31","slug":"women-justices-on-abortion-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/03\/women-justices-on-abortion-13.html","title":{"rendered":"Women (Justices) on Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ignoring some of the amusing snark about Kagan, Sotomayor, and Ginsburg (and, for that matter, Breyer) running amok over John Edwards&#39; attempts to move things along quickly, the Justices&#39; questions of the Texas Solicitor General over HB2 are remarkably telling as to what a goofy law it is, unless one admits that its primary goal is to reduce the constitutionally-protected access to abortion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/supreme_court_dispatches\/2016\/03\/in_oral_arguments_for_the_texas_abortion_case_the_three_female_justices.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/T8FQfu-aCC4ihw-9FUSB980QYmtgyEm5fNYMVIXF5m4iGgHbFQcadbkkthctUV1RfMEmPMyzw2D8wFK3XglzUEU7Mc6Yl786FeS42RQHQAKrCNbM6JLIt5AKA1VD7spLE2ogoSGURWJ0A4TIeI4tBIT1JsZcc9pGg1gGIiD8Eupy1iUGMde0-CXdLEmZmWs04-tMoWa7FXK3m2Ie56GCMqqKzbsZrrSUfgVZH4J-rdANW4h1xgWxHO-mJczXHgMLMDMlMk4=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/supreme_court_dispatches\/2016\/03\/in_oral_arguments_for_the_texas_abortion_case_the_three_female_justices.html'>How Three Fierce Female Justices Took Control of the Supreme Court<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWhen the Supreme Court last heard oral arguments in a landmark abortion case, it was April 1992, the case was Planned Parenthood v Casey, and Sandra Da &#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/hrCEuiUR1gp'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ignoring some of the amusing snark about Kagan, Sotomayor, and Ginsburg (and, for that matter, Breyer) running amok over John Edwards&#39; attempts to move things along quickly, the Justices&#39; questions of the Texas Solicitor General over HB2 are remarkably telling as to what a goofy law it is, unless one admits that its primary goal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/03\/women-justices-on-abortion-13.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Women (Justices) on Abortion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128184,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/29\/yes-once-again-scotus-picks-make-this-the-most-important-election-ever.html","url_meta":{"origin":130073,"position":0},"title":"Yes, once again SCOTUS picks make this the Most Important Election Ever","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 29-Sep-15 7:10am","format":false,"excerpt":"I actually cannot recall a presidential election when that claim wasn't made, usually by both sides of the aisle. 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