Partial Birth Abortion Ban: The Supreme Court Hears Arguments

The Supreme Court today again took up the incendiary issue of abortion, hearing arguments in two cases (Gonzales v. Carhart (05-380) and Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood (05-1382)) involving bans on "partial birth" abortion.

SCOTUSblog reports that C-SPAN has audio files of the arguments, and for a quick summary, take a look at Lyle Denniston's post Commentary: Kennedy Vote in Play on Abortion, also on SCOTUSblog.

As promised, the Court has been supplying same-day argument transcripts, so both the Carhart transcript (PDF; 66 pages) and the Planned Parenthood transcript (PDF; 66 pages) are now available.