What will happen to Roe v. Wade?

Court Backs Abortion Ban

I'm not sure that the lead for this article displayed both sides of the conflict in an accurate manner. First by labeling the Supreme Court's majority vote as "conservative" they are ultimately implying that all conservative efforts are anti-abortion. Secondly, by saying the decision "set the stage for further restrictions" to abortion, it seems as though someones opinion creeped into the lead, rather than the other side of the conflict. The abortion rights efforts were not necessarily mentioned in the lead directly, though it might be implied that there are those efforts otherwise there would be no court case in the first place. Still, I think that the lead showed more of one side of the story than the other.

Further on in the article, one needs to read all the way to the twelfth paragraph before hearing a comment from the abortion rights' side of the story, which seems a long way down, especially considering the first lack of mention in the lead. It also mentions all five of the Supreme Court Justices who supported the decision, as well as President Bush before introducing a source who opposed the decision. Overall, it seemed as though the conflict was unbalanced, simply through the story organization.

The full text of the decision of Gonzales v. Carhart can be found here at www.findlaw.com