Editorials blast the recent partial-birth abortion ruling:

“With this decision the Supreme Court has sanctioned the intrusion of legislation into the day-to-day practice of medicine,” writes Dr. Jeffrey M. Drazen, the Boston-based journal’s editor. Physicians are open to oversight and discussion of delicate matters, he says, but those discussions should occur “among informed and knowledgable people who are acting in the best interests of a specific patient.”

The political ruckus over Terri Schiavo in 2005 demonstrated “the disastrous consequences of congressional interference” in a medical case, Drazen writes. And now, “the judicial branch has regrettably joined the legislative branch in practicing medicine without a licence.”