FROM NOTACOMMIE

I’m worried about the way it’s being framed, but any of my students who have had an abortion will point out they hated the experience, and while not all regret it, all wish they wouldn’t have had to do it.

However, while abortion clearly is not a good, it’s the right-to-abortion that is really in question.

But last month’s Supreme Court decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act marked a milestone for a different argument advanced by anti-abortion leaders, one they are increasingly making in state legislatures around the country. They say that abortion, as a rule, is not in the best interest of the woman; that women are often misled or ill-informed about its risks to their own physical or emotional health; and that the interests of the pregnant woman and the fetus are, in fact, the same.