Casualties of the media-savvy anti-abortion movement's first significant victory...

... first in a long war. And the "fair and balanced" media has often been only too happy to play into the hands of whichever side comes up with the catchiest phrases.

This comment in reply to the article illustrates just one example of the real consequences of the court's decision:

If one of your daughters had the terrible misfortune to have a wanted pregnancy go terribly awry because of profound fetal anomalies that were not compatible with life, I doubt that you, as a good, nurturing, loving mother would want one of her daughters to carry a fetus without a brain, or liver or kidneys, or organs all growing outside his or her body for any more weeks than necessary. She would spend those weeks in the most profound kind of torment and misery knowing that the wanted pregnancy would result in death once the fetus tried to take its first breath.

Before the D&X/D&E procedure was developed, the method used was in utero dismemberment. That procedure ran the considerable multiple risks of uterine perforation and all that it can bring. The D&X/D&E is safer and allows grieving parents to hold their wanted child and at least bury it with some dignity.

Many of these profound fetal anomalies are not able to be determined until very late in a pregnancy.