Judiciocracy - Judge Casey and the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Mark Earley. "Gruesome, brutal, barbaric, and uncivilized." That is what U.S. District Judge Richard Casey in New York thinks about partial-birth abortion. Unfortunately, Casey's thoughts about the procedure were not enough to keep him from declaring the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional last Thursday. Partial-birth abortion might be gruesome, brutal, and all the rest, but it is also medically necessary—at least in Judge Casey's view. Several doctors made a compelling case in court that partial-birth abortion is never necessary to save a mother's life. However, opponents of the ban also brought...