The more we reflect on the Supreme Court's hearing in respect of Mississippi's abortion law, the more we are struck that the news is not so much in Associate Justice Sotomayor's use of the s-word, as in "stench," but rather more the r-word, as in "religion." That came when the justice looked down her judicial proboscis and demanded of the solicitor general of Mississippi, Scott Stewart: "How is your interest anything but a religious view?" What in the name of the Father of All Mercies to use...