Speaking at today's Supreme Court review, Stanford Law professor Pam Karlan offered her assessment of the Court's new view of reproductive freedom:
But the rationale the Court has given here would allow them to ban any abortion procedure, because any woman might regret. Now of course, you might wonder “how does the Court know this?” and Justice Kennedy is quite candid. The Court knows this because it looked deep inside itself. At several points, [Justice Kennedy] said “there’s no evidence to support my position, but I don’t need no stinking evidence.” And so, I think this is a very fundamental change in the Court’s sensibility about abortion, and it’s played out . . . in a number of other cases where the Court has said “we don’t actually need evidence because we know this to be true.”
Re: "I Don't Need No Stinkin' Evidence"
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