But the organization’s vice president, Tom Minnery, said that Dobson rejoiced over the ruling “because we, and most pro-lifers, are sophisticated enough to know we’re not going to win a total victory all at once. We’re going to win piece by piece.”

Doctors adopted the late-term procedure “out of convenience,” Minnery added. “The old procedure, which is still legal, involves using forceps to pull the baby apart in utero, which means there is greater legal liability and danger of internal bleeding from a perforated uterus. So we firmly believe there will be fewer later-term abortions as a result of this ruling.”

Marty Lederman has some comments and observations

It’s a pattern of dealing with inconvenient facts leaking out of non-MSM sources I am seeing more and more:

1. Leftist journalist/editorialist writes/says something patently false;

2. MSM promotes the falsehood;

3. Conservative blogosphere investigates and disproves false statements;

4. MSM bides its time as unchecked false statements continue to spread;

5. Conservative blogosphere forcefully challenges MSM to admit error;

6. After another controversy puts falsehoods on back burner, MSM grudgingly report that an alternative point-of-view exists, and all but dismissively says, “It’s just them.”

The MSM still hasn’t had the courage to admit that Joseph Wilson did NOT “debunk” or “discredit” CIA intelligence claims Iraq was seeking yellowcake uranium in Niger. As for challenging Valerie Plame’s newly minted tale of some passerby being responsible for suggesting Wilson for the Niger trip, the MSM are predictably incurious — it would have to admit that there was a reason for believing Plame had a role in the mission in the first place, which the great majority of news outlets took great pains to conceal.

What’s going on at Ave Maria School of Law?

We have chosen to reply as a group to repeated inquiries concerning recent events at Ave Maria School of Law (AMSL). We do so to indicate the extent of our agreement concerning the serious nature of the crisis unfolding here, the need for fundamental change if AMSL is to continue to exist and serve its Mission, and to appeal for input from our colleagues in the wider legal academy.

Until now, the majority of the faculty has not made public the outrageous behavior of the Law School’s administration. We have remained silent in the hope of minimizing damage to our school, believing that responsible parties would set matters right, and out of fear of escalating acts of retaliation. At this point, however, we believe it is important to allow the larger legal community to know the reality of the way AMSL’s administration has abused the power with which it has been entrusted.

Those who have not been closely following events at AMSL, nonetheless, may have heard of a number of events over the last year or so. To summarize: last spring, a substantial majority of the faculty issued a vote of “no confidence” in Dean Bernard Dobranski. The response from the AMSL Board of Governors, led by Board Chairman and AMSL’s largest funder, Thomas Monaghan, was a terse restatement of its support for the Dean. This rejection of open discussions, combined with retaliatory actions by the Dean, exclusion of the faculty from governance of the school, and serious violations of academic freedom were subjects of an investigation by an ABAfact-finder earlier this year. In the midst of this ABAprocess, the AMSL Board voted in effect to close AMSL and transfer its assets to a new law school to be located on the campus of Ave Maria University, in southwest Florida.

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…the court’s opinion is a hodgepodge of confusing and sometimes offensive ramblings…

Gee, you’d think a Roe supporter wouldn’t try that particular argument.

One of the greatest things about the internet is that it has removed the ability of the “gatekeepers” to control, restrict or just plain quash dissent — and that’s why Professor Stone’s original got hammered, because critics had the means to do so.

The editors of the Tribune had to have seen the criticism — but wanted to publish it in a venue in which it could influence people who won’t see the criticism of others, and who are restricted in their ability to respond.