Casting Aside the Facts

For someone who (like me) leans to the left on non-abortion issues, the Democratic presidential candidates' campaign rite of trying to outdo each other in their enthusiasm for abortion rights is always disheartening. Here is another report on the Dems' appearance before abortion rights activists yesterday in which they condemned the Supreme Court's partial-birth abortion ruling. Would anyone like to take a stab at explaining this statement by Senator Obama? He alleges that, for the new conservative Court, "When the science is inconvenient, when the facts don't match up with the ideology, they are cast aside." Is he talking about Justice Kennedy's statements about women regretting their abortions, or is there something else to which he could be referring?