'Alito v. Planned Parenthood'

In recent weeks, Judge Samuel Alito Jr. has been portrayed as everything from “anti-woman” to a racial bigot. His confirmation hearings got so ugly that his wife, in the most regrettable image of the hearings, left the room in tears. But another woman, Margaret Sanger, was present in spirit throughout the entirety of the hearings.

Of course, the real issue behind Alito’s hearings was not his qualifications or his fitness but, instead, the issue of abortion. Liberal Democrats fear Alito will push the Supreme Court in a direction that will begin chipping away at Roe v. Wade. The most intense opp...