In January the New York Times described this great moment in personal-injury law:In 1985, a 31-year-old North Carolina lawyer named John Edwards stood before a jury and channeled the words of an unborn baby girl.
Referring to an hour-by-hour record of a fetal heartbeat monitor, Mr. Edwards told the jury: "She said at 3, 'I'm fine.' She said at 4, 'I'm having a little trouble, but I'm doing O.K.' Five, she said, 'I'm having problems.' At 5:30, she said, 'I need out.' "
But the obstetrician, he argued in an artful blend of science and passion, failed to heed the call. By waiting 90 more minutes to perform a breech delivery, rather than immediately performing a Caesarean section, Mr. Edwards said, the doctor permanently damaged the girl's brain.
At the vice-presidential debate this fall, someone should ask Sen. Edwards to demonstrate this technique by channeling the words of an unborn baby about to undergo a partial-birth abortion.
I just don't buy into that crap. Please remove the tinfoil hat.
Good idea.
But there's another point, I can't figure out how to make as succintly.
In the suit referenced, Edwards sued a doctor for not performing a C-section soon enough - claiming this damaged the child's brain.
However, had the doctor instead of trying to deliver the baby, turned it around in the womb until only its head remained inside and then stabbed its brains and severed its head - Kerry would support that "delivery" with no lawsuit (for which he made $20 million).