When a high-stakes Supreme Court argument looms, litigants often turn to the heavy-hitting veterans of high court advocacy. Not so for the abortion rights groups who will be fighting the federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 on Thursday. Staff attorneys Eve Gartner of Planned Parenthood and Priscilla Smith of the Center for Reproductive Rights will argue the pair of cases. It is Gartner’s first high court argument and Smith’s second, but their bosses are confident about sending them into the fray.
When a high-stakes Supreme Court argument looms, litigants often turn to the heavy-hitting veterans of high court advocacy. Not so for the abortion rights groups who will be fighting the federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 on Thursday. Staff attorneys Eve Gartner of Planned Parenthood and Priscilla Smith of the Center for Reproductive Rights will argue the pair of cases. It is Gartner’s first high court argument and Smith’s second, but their bosses are confident about sending them into the fray.
When a high-stakes Supreme Court argument looms, litigants often turn to the heavy-hitting veterans of high court advocacy. Not so for the abortion rights groups who will be fighting the federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 on Thursday. Staff attorneys Eve Gartner of Planned Parenthood and Priscilla Smith of the Center for Reproductive Rights will argue the pair of cases. It is Gartner’s first high court argument and Smith’s second, but their bosses are confident about sending them into the fray.
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