Ellen Goodman

About the author: Ellen Goodman is a syndicated columnist.

The effort to ban late-term abortion—which is the pro-life movement's most recent attempt to end all forms of legal abortion—is based on falsehoods. Women who seek late-term abortions do not do so out of irresponsibility or convenience, as antiabortion groups suggest. In truth, a late-term abortion is only conducted when it is necessary to protect life and health of the mother.

At least they won't be showing the cartoon in the Supreme Court. For once we will hold this debate without the infamous line drawings that look straight through a woman, as if she were an invisible vessel, to the perfect Gerber baby lying within.

That's been the defining image, the most graphic of graphics ever since the pro-life movement invented the phrase...