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Let this decision — which reversed a clear precedent requiring that a woman’s health be protected — be a lesson to those Senators who thought it unseemly to filibuster Sam Alito’s nomination. It is clear that this precedent, set in Roe and reaffirmed in Casey, was abandoned for no reason other than the replacement of Sandra Day O’Connor with Sam Alito.

Not since Bush v. Gore has the Supreme Court made such a political decision, or one that so completely distorts the law and disregards the U.S. Constitution. Five justices, including Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Samuel Alito, both installed by Bush and a Republican-majority Senate, ruled that the law does not violate a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.