by user Towncommons The recent Supreme Court decision in Gonzalez v. Carhart, upholding a federal law on partial birth abortion, is being played up as a huge assault on women's fundamental rights by pro abortion advocates. It's not. That does not of course stop the New York Times and others of their ilk who are already proclaiming it as such in order to generate money and votes for pro-abortion candidates in 2008. For the anti-abortion crowd, the decision is being played up as a huge victory. It's not that either. In all actuality, as Justices Thomas and Scalia suggested in their concurring opinion, this case might well have been decided differently if the proponents of abortion rights had simply argued in their case that the federal government did not have the power under the commerce cla