Anecdotal evidence that decisions about the abortion procedure banned by Congress and recently upheld by the Supreme Court may be best left to a woman and her doctor, not the Congress. Predictive of future problems women and their doctors will face as a result of the recent court decision to outlaw intact extraction method abortion.

I find this a very powerful anecdote -- perhaps because I agree with the writer's viewpoint. But anecdotes are very narrow and well chosen for effect. We would benefit from a separate, broader and deeper analysis of the effect of the law -- not so subject to dueling anecdotes. Unfortunately, on this subject it is unlikely that it would make any difference.

Because it presents themedical side of an issue which has too often been politicized.

I don't know if it's journalism, but it is a personal story that is pertinent to current events. As an exapmle of the consequences of the recetn Supreme Court decisionto ban the procedure, it would be a useful sidebar to a larger work on the consequences of court decisions on citizens' lives.

One story of many illustrating how Republicans want women back in the days of coat hangers and bleeding to death rather than getting a medical procedure. I hate abortion, and I think women are irresponsible to get accidentally knocked up when there are so many options. But I hate even more the thought of girls and women dying because Republicans think blastocysts are more human than grown women and girls.