Posted on 02/21/2006 7:07:54 AM PST by php5
details soon...
Watch Kennedy swing like an old screen door.
Pray for the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court Plunges Into Abortion Debate
Feb 21 10:05 AM US/Eastern
By GINA HOLLAND
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON
The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will consider the constitutionality of banning a type of late-term abortion, teeing up a contentious issue for a newly-constituted court already in a state of flux over privacy rights.
The Bush administration has pressed the high court to reinstate the federal law, passed in 2003 but never put in effect because it was struck down by judges in California, Nebraska and New York.
Yeah this has been in the works for a while...its the old 2003 law that got set aside by I think the 9th. Been a lot of talk about the court taking this up for last year.
By GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will consider the constitutionality of banning a type of late-term abortion, teeing up a contentious issue for a newly-constituted court already in a state of flux over privacy rights.
The Bush administration has pressed the high court to reinstate the federal law, passed in 2003 but never put in effect because it was struck down by judges in California, Nebraska and New York.
The outcome will likely rest with the two men that President Bush has recently installed on the court. Justices had been split 5-4 in 2000 in striking down a state law, barring what critics call partial birth abortion because it lacked an exception to protect the health of the mother.
But Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who was the tie-breaking vote, retired late last month and was replaced by Samuel Alito. Abortion had been a major focus in the fight over Alito's nomination because justices serve for life and he will surely help shape the court on abortion and other issues for the next generation.
Alito, in his rulings on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, has been more willing than O'Connor, the first woman justice, to allow restrictions on abortions, which were legalized in the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.
The federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act prohibits a certain type of abortion, generally carried out in the second or third trimester, in which a fetus is partially removed from the womb, and the skull is punctured or crushed.
Justices on a 9-0 vote vote reaffirmed in January that states can require parental involvement in abortion decisions and that state restrictions must have an exception to protect the mother's health.
The federal law in the current case has no health exception, but defenders maintain that the procedure is never medically necessary to protect a woman's health.
Hiding in the corner: "I'm not voting this year because of the border and this and ..." - Says the Conservative who is feckless, impatient and unfocused.
Slow and steady wins the race. Not abrupt and I'm voting for Perot instead.
With Stevens and Ginsburg on life support, if you do not vote in 2006, you are un-American and a FAKE Conservative.
this is HUGE
It was set aside by three separate courts - California, Nebraska, and New York - by both Democrat and Republican judges.
"It was set aside by three separate courts - California, Nebraska, and New York - by both Democrat and Republican judges."
That's why we need strick Constructionist AMERICAN Judges.
The Republican and Democrats need to be shoved (physically) to the back of the line.
We're Americans and we're losing our country rapidly because of jackasses on both sides of the aisle.
Great reply New Yorker 77!
We are lucky to have the ability to vote for those who will lead, however good or bad they lead. If bad we vote for another next time. If good, we vote em back.
Yes, because those courts were bound by the Supreme Court precedent. The argument will be that no health exception is needed because Congress determined that this particular procedure was never necessary to preserve the mother's health. If the mother's health was in danger at this point in the pregnancy, there are other procedures that would preserve both the health of the mother and the life of the baby...
Serious question.
How will Scalia Rule?
"Thus, my difficulty with Roe v. Wade is a legal rather than a moral one. I do not believe - and no one believed for 200 years - that the Constitution contains a right to abortion. And if a state were to permit abortion on demand, I would and could in good conscience vote against an attempt to invalidate that law, for the same reason that I vote against invalidation of laws that contradict Roe v. Wade; namely, simply because the Constitution gives the federal government and, hence, me no power over the matter. "
Antonin Scalia
That picture is of a woman of PURE evil.
She is for lowering the age of consent to 11 years old, she is an evil person.
It is. Little by little, I see the country moving away from the recent prevailing liberal views on abortion. And I think this is a very good thing. I really don't know how one would enforce the law if abortion becomes illegal, and I have great disdain for Randall Terry and his ilk, but we must begin to value the life that grows in the womb, at every stage of it's development. Recent events in my life have moved me in that direction, and I am convinced it is the better way live one's own life, to value and protect that innocent life.
"End abortion? Over my dead body!" Ruth Bader Ginsberg
...and when Ruth Bader Ginsberg stands before God and tells him why she worked so hard for the murders of tens of millions of little human babies, will she find it hard to believe that His dissenting opinion takes precedence over her postion to support abortion???
It's going to be very interesting. Never too early to start popping the popcorn, for this one.
I hold my nose when I vote sometimes.
But demand for perfection gets you Ginsburg and Breyer.
Compromise gets you Roberts and Alito.
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