Ruth Ginsburg is still on the court, and was part of the dissenting opinion. This is from a CNN article on it:
In a bitter dissent read from the bench, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the only woman on the high court, said the majority's opinion "cannot be understood as anything other than an effort to chip away a right declared again and again by this court, and with increasing comprehension of its centrality to women's lives."
She called the ruling "alarming" and noted the conservative majority "tolerates, indeed applauds, federal intervention to ban nationwide a procedure found necessary and proper in certain cases" by doctor's groups, including gyncecologists.
Eliminating the option in cases of medical necessity for the woman is crazy. Then again, it's the same mentality that led to women having to fight to have birth control pills covered by insurance, when Viagra and its cousins were virtually universally covered.
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Date: 2007-04-18 09:54 pm (UTC)In a bitter dissent read from the bench, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the only woman on the high court, said the majority's opinion "cannot be understood as anything other than an effort to chip away a right declared again and again by this court, and with increasing comprehension of its centrality to women's lives."
She called the ruling "alarming" and noted the conservative majority "tolerates, indeed applauds, federal intervention to ban nationwide a procedure found necessary and proper in certain cases" by doctor's groups, including gyncecologists.
Eliminating the option in cases of medical necessity for the woman is crazy. Then again, it's the same mentality that led to women having to fight to have birth control pills covered by insurance, when Viagra and its cousins were virtually universally covered.