Even though the supporters of this law purported to be banning one particular abortion procedure, the law as the court found would in fact chill doctors from performing virtually any second trimester abortion.

If supporters of RU-486 believe the FDA followed the law in approving RU-486 for abortion, they should have nothing to fear from the proposed review. But if the FDA bent the rules to expedite approval of RU-486, the agency clearly valued the 'health' of the abortion industry over women's health and should be brought to account.

This case was more about the scope of federal racketeering law than it was about abortions or abortion rights.

She must have broken some law.

So much of where the justices go in terms of terrorism, law enforcement, even abortion, a range of issues will depend on the court's composition in coming years.

The right-to-life principle is the cornerstone of American law. The logic of abortion is not only wrong, it has put American culture on a dangerous moral slope.