Focus (Forum & Focus)
May 23, 2007
Criticize Opinion, Not Religion
Letter to the Editor — Erwin Chemerinsky and the Daily Journal were wrong to blame the Supreme Court’s recent abortion ruling on “five aging male justices — all Catholic.”
Professor Erwin Chemerinsky, in the course of criticizing the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 decision in Gonzales v. Carhart, which upheld a federal ban on partial-birth abortion ("Judges Know Best," May 15) let go this volley of putrefaction (which the Daily Journal highlighted): The decision rests on nothing more than the "view of five aging male justices - all Catholic."
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