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Banning Logic

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Author(s) Jacob Sullum
Source New York Post
Date April 29, 2007
URL http://www.nypost.com/seven/04292007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/banning_logic_opedcolumnists_jacob_sullum.htm?page=0
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"Such meddling is unconstitutional as well as unwise. The constitutional pretext for the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, as with so much else that Congress does, is the authority to regulate interstate commerce. But if an abortion qualifies as interstate commerce, it's hard to see how anything is beyond the federal government's purview."


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This item argues against the position Supreme Court was correct in its ruling on the topic Gonzales v. Carhart.