Opinion by Ruth Marcus: This is a judge who knows what conclusion he wants to reach and is going to do what he must to get there — facts, fairness and law be damned.
that federal judges are bound “to read the law as it is written and not read into it any policy preference that they might have had before they were judges.”
He then drops a footnote defending this inflammatory word choice as necessary for scientific accuracy. “Jurists often use the word ‘fetus’ to inaccurately identify unborn humans in unscientific ways. The word ‘fetus’ refers to a specific gestational stage of development, as opposed to the zygote, blastocyst, or embryo stages.
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