Ames C. Grawert, The Fundamental Meaning of ‘Medical Uncertainty’: Judicial Deference to Selective Science in Gonzales V. Carhart (July 17, 2009). 12 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol’y 379, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1435480
Examining Gonzales v. Carhart, this Note takes the position that the Supreme Court’s latest abortion decision sets a lower bar than is prudent for the scrutiny of scientific and medical congressional ‘findings’ that purport to justify limiting rights otherwise entitled to constitutional protection. In doing so, the Court invites collateral attacks on the same rights through the use and congressional adoption of slipshod, deliberately uniformed science (‘sham science’).
