At the Spectator, Shawn Macomber weighs in

The National Abortion Federation, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and Planned Parenthood, along with a few abortion doctors, are currently waging legal battles in three states to get the law struck down. After watching the last two weeks of the New York case, it looks like their bloodlust and absolutism is finally blowing up in their faces.

One of the abortionists challenging the law was described as “visibly shaken” after coming under bare-knuckle questioning of Judge Richard Casey in the Southern District Court of New York last week. For the first time in years the public debate was not simplified as to the semantics of the word “choice.” This time abortionists and their supporters are on the defensive.

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