Posted on 06/29/2016 5:19:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Supreme Court's decision, striking down the Texas abortion law signed by Governor Rick Perry in 2013, is but the latest example of the lost, confused, sick nation we have become. In the words of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, "A country I do not recognize."
The Court, in an opinion written by Justice Stephen Breyer, found unconstitutional the two contested provisions of the Texas law -- that physicians performing an abortion have "admitting privileges" at a hospital within 30 miles of the clinic and that facilities where abortions are performed must meet the standards of an "ambulatory surgical center." The Court's decision says that these conditions place an "undue burden" on a woman's alleged right to an abortion.
According to the opinion, prior to the passage of the law in Texas, House Bill 2, "abortion (in Texas) was an extremely safe procedure with very low rates of complications and virtually no deaths."
The "logic" then continues that abortion in Texas was safe before the new requirements, thus the new requirements, which bring stricter and more costly standards for providing abortions, are not justified and constitute an "undue burden" on women wanting an abortion.
This simplistically glosses over the complex realities of abortion data and the complex realities of abortion.
But regardless of how abortion data in Texas may be interpreted, it ignores what drove the passage of the Texas law. The law was, to a large part, a reaction to the Gosnell experience in Pennsylvania. Kermit Gosnell for years operated an unsupervised, filthy abortion factory, ultimately leading to his convictions for murder and manslaughter.
After Gosnell's trial and conviction, states around the nation took notice to prevent similar horrors from happening in their state.
The provision in the Texas law requiring that facilities providing abortions meet the standards of an "ambulatory surgical center" was specifically recommended by the Grand Jury that investigated Gosnell.
Perhaps it is gruesome to say -- but this is gruesome business -- that if Justice Breyer had a daughter who was a victim of Kermit Gosnell, he would be far less cavalier in his conclusion. Would he still believe that the conditions in Texas before the passage of H.B. 2 were just fine and that it was more important that droves of women could be assured of abortions with little effort or worry?
It is also worthwhile to think of the bigger picture here.
Necessary for a decent, free, and civil nation is meaningful law. And, as this decision shows, unfortunately, that law in our country is no longer meaningful. It is rooted in nothing and is simply the product of the latest trends and whims of judges.
The preamble of our constitution states that it was adopted by "We the people ... in order to ... secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity."
Since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, which somehow found a constitutional justification elucidating a woman's right to destroy her unborn child at will, there have been almost 60 million unborn babies destroyed.
What kind of mind would conclude that 60 million destroyed fetuses demonstrates the success of our constitution to "secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity?" It is a total perversion of the purpose of society.
Our constitution is supposed to be rooted in our Declaration of Independence, which declares our inalienable right to life.
We now live in a culture that denies the priority of life and posterity and is about the convenience of the moment, meaninglessness, and death. Is it any wonder that terrorists, who put no value on life, don't fear us and feel so free to attack us?
Fortunately, there are still tens of millions of God-fearing Christians in America. Here's hoping latest horrible decision will provide a wake-up call and provoke prayers that it is not too late to stop the abortion tragedy.
Thank you all those who abstained from voting in 2012.
Obama appointed Kagan & Sotomayor. More disaster to come with Hillary appointing 2-4 new justices.
The Left not only wants dead babies, they want dead mothers too.
As long as we continue to try to get the court to impose a solution to this problem we will lose.
Want to end abortion? get congress to outlaw it, until then the court will continue to uphold the law they created out of thin air.
A state has authority to regulate health services. Nothing in the US Constitution gives women the right to have abortions or the right for the federal government to stick its nose in state affairs. The US Supreme Court simply seized authority it was not granted by the US Constitution. When the left wins these “decisions” by stacking the courts, the discussion is over—the law settled, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t aware of the judicial barbarism that’s going on in America.
Bottom line: A whole lot of judges need impeachin’!
So, the decision basically says States can’t put any health and safety regulations on abortion clinics.
Virtually no deaths? Amazing.
Abortion has come full circle back to the ally way sanitation and coat hanger.
There is no guarantee that a ‘President Romney’ would not have appointed justices that were just as abhorrent as K & S.
We KNOW we have a traitor in the White House, but a Romney presidency would have been just as destructive to our Nation, because that lying two-faced weasel is a charter member of the Cheap Labor Express and follows the orders of his globalist masters.
Excellent opportunity for ANY ‘R’ candidate.
If this were a decision favoring R’s rather than D’s, we would be hearing how reckless it is when there are more regulations when it comes to a ‘road kill’ being taken to a Vet, than when sending your daughter to an abortion mill.
Just like the Benghazi ‘hearings’, after FOUR YEARS, they come up with an 800 page document, basically written out of ‘respect’ for the individuals involved - naming them without naming them - and for their efforts of ‘fairness’, WE THE PEOPLE get barraged with - Nothing here, move on, with the principal characters saying ‘If I was at fault, THEY would have named me’.
Yes, the LIBS are correct - the hearings were definitely a colossal waste of taxpayer money - spending FOUR YEARS to come up with virtually the same message HRC & the other establishment stooge came up with while the attack was basically going on.
Yes, I know it does not EXACTLY say that BUT without ‘condemning’ those that need be condemned, it basically exonerates them.
EVERY Congressman & Senator needs to be ‘turned out’ with ALL their STAFFS AND ADVISORS the first to go.
Only ‘old’ thing left ‘on the Hill’ should be the buildings and the Security peoples.
DC hired a ‘new’ School Superintendent a few years back and her first move was to FIRE EVERYONE and rehire, giving first preference to the recently fired.
She was basically using the R Reagan technique of making EVERYONE come in and personally pick up their ‘Government Dole’, so they could get a ‘head count’ and see who actually was ‘real’.
California got to put a decent amount of money BACK in the system - or at least not be spending it on Ghosts & Shadows.
As with Dred Scott v. Sanford, Roe v. Wade has created a situation where every law, every administrative procedure, every custom, every feeling, every shred of human decency must get out of the way, lest a slave be freed or an abortion be prevented.
The Ultimate Supreme Court of Heaven will have the final say. So-called catholic Anthony Kennedy is a black robed heretic.
If only Texas tells supremes to shove their decisions up their smelly Obamaholes, the supremes will win.
What if forty states told the supremes to shove it?
And this is what must happen.
Hey Einstein. Get your facts straight. Kagan and Sotomayor were appointed BEFORE the 2012 election.
Thank you all those who abstained from voting in 2012.
Obama appointed Kagan & Sotomayor. More disaster to come with Hillary appointing 2-4 new justices.
Abortion, which is a right not found anywhere in the Constitution, has become a super right, trumping all others.
Apparently Anthony Kennedy has never heard of Kermit Gosnell.
Amazing how the court will pull out ALL the stops to protect a right it invented, and nothing to protect those spelled out clearly in the Constitution.
There comes a time.......
These five REALLY do think they are SUPREME. Five men who are ABOVE GOD’S LAW. They cannot even fathom that they will someday be accountable to an almighty. THEY are the almighty.
God save us — God save the unborn.
Considering the HEALTH safeguards the SUPREMES tossed out, it does appear to me that this constitutes positive evidience that there is indeed A WAR ON WOMEN.
What are the aims of that war?
It could (and should) be said that to the LEFT, the death of the baby is of more importance that the life and health of the “mother”.
This opens the gate for “HI-TECH” abortions with “back alley” results.
The Constitution says nothing about what rights we have, only defines limitations of government power with respect to a sub-set of those rights. One of those limits on government power is directly on those rights identified in the Bill of Rights, along with an associated duty to protect some rights against abrogation or infringement by the states; the fate of the other God given rights are left to the states and the people. Please stop spreading this progressive BS interpretation of where our rights come from.
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