I knew the facts didn't matter when the courts kept overturning partial-birth abortion laws under the pretense that it is sometimes necessary to protect the mother's health. It never is, because the alternative to partial-birth abortion is not continued pregnancy, it is live birth.
She implied that had the facts been known at the time, the decision might have been different.
No, Blackmun et al were not interested in "just the facts." They were revolutionaries who had bought into the "zero population growth" mentality of the 1970s.
In most courts today, the "facts" are determined at the first trial level and cannot be changed (unless liberals want them changed). Appeals courts look at "principles of law," not the "evidence" itself.
Edith Jones is considered a very conservative judge by TX standards. In her own way, she is part of the judicial tyranny engulfing the USA. And the people say? NOTHING!