Expert: Sound Advice - 3/15/2007

Question
in my paper i am asked to find a legal case involving abortions i have looked for a long time an have unsuccessfully found a case in which a anti-abortion wins the case

Answer
Sebastian,

Well, the reason you are having trouble is that all the supreme court cases have been decidedly pro-choice.  However, the recent case of Gonzales v. Carhart, to be decided in 2007, is an interesting one.  It involves the validity of a federal statute banning partial-birth abortions (I don't like using the phrase "so-called" because it's redundant and really doesn't add much).  

From wikipedia:
The federal ban was the subject of disagreement in the lower courts. In the Second Circuit, Judge Chester J. Straub dissented from that court's 2-1 decision to strike down the federal statute.[48] In that same decision, Chief Judge John M. Walker, Jr. said that he was compelled by Supreme Court precedent to strike down the federal statute. But Walker asked, "Is it too much to hope for a better approach to the law of abortion – one that accommodates the reasonable policy judgments of Congress and the state legislatures without departing from established, generally applicable, tenets of constitutional law?"

Wikipedia is not a bad resource IMHO, here is the link to the details on Gonzales v. Carhart - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Carhart

Hope this helps!