[Torie]

Chief Justice John Roberts appeared favorably inclined to the administration's defense of the law. He asked several times whether there was any evidence to suggest the banned abortion procedure was anything more than marginally safer than the more common dilation and evacuation method, in which a fetus is dismembered as it is removed from the uterus.

Am I missing something, or is it much ado about nothing as to how a late term fetus is killed?

[jwalsh07]

yeah your missing something but so is the court. Reading the transcript was surreal.

The PBA act has basically laid down a marker. If the baby passes that marker, say the belly button of Mama for instance, then that is the dividing line between a constitutional killing and an unconstitutional killing of the baby.

The first procedure would be a DE and the second a DX. DE is "fetal demise" and DX is unlawful killing.

Sad stuff man.