"I doubt if he wanted my two cents on the latest abortion case."

Or the new Sam, who has great respect for precedent and an "open mind" about abortion cases?

The Court has scheduled three more abortion cases for next term.

The latest numbers, for 2005, showed 7.1 million abortion cases in that year.

What we have decided seems to be, and will be reported by the media as, an abortion case.

Many were just citizens interested in an important abortion case.

In the abortion case, they stood against government interference with a woman's basic liberty.

Five days later came a decision in an epochal abortion case.

The sexual abuse charge grew out of the investigation into the abortion case.

That step may come in the next term, for which the Court has accepted three new abortion cases.