Go back to sleep, Ruth.
Posted on 04/18/2007 10:11:14 AM PDT by CharlesS
The Supreme Court upheld a nationwide ban on partial birth abortions today in a 5-4 vote. The Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 which was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush received immediate challenges. The procedure at issue involves partially removing the fetus intact from a woman’s uterus, then crushing or cutting its skull to complete the abortion.
The argument that crushing a babies skull is a “constitutional right” is the most outrageous thing I have ever heard, and I am elated the Supreme Court rejected that notion. Hopefully this will be only the first step in a series of laws which will eventually do away with the abortion on demand society we currently live in.......
(Excerpt) Read more at constitutionallyright.com ...
Anyone know what the harpies at NOW and NARAL are saying about this decision?
Thank God! Some sanity from that court for a change!
They are calling it a dark day in American history and then pimping for money.
Lotsa people are mad at Bush about different things. But this decision happened because of Bush’s nominations of Roberts and Alito. No matter what else you are angry at Bush about, please give him credit for appointing good judges.
That would be he his greatest legacy.
Needed one more but those Libs on court, they tough birds...
Lost Congress anyway so would be hard to get a Conservative in anyway now, if not impossible.
Okay. He did one good thing.
This news made my day. Thank you president Bush for nominating 2 great conservative justices.
The 4 conservative justices Alito, Roberts, Thomas, Scalia, have voted on the right side of the issues so far. They weren’t able to overcome the horrible global warming ruling though because of the 5 Marxists on the court, 2 of them Clinton nominees. That ruling turned CO2 into a “pollutant”. CO2 is what we humans breathe out and our coal power plants produce to give us energy to run out homes and businesses. So do they want us now to stop breathing and stop producing products and energy?
Killing 40 million unborn babies over decades is genocide imo. Democrat party have you no conscience? The Democrat machine the media, the DNC, academia, hollywood and the government schools are slowly turning the U.S.A into the USSR. God help us all.
Today’s decision is alarming,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote in dissent. She said the ruling “refuses to take ... seriously” previous Supreme Court decisions on abortion..... and the right for a woman to suck the brains out of a innocent human being. There, that’s what she really meant.
An encouraging “first step.”
Clearly Bush’s Fault! Thank you Mr. President!
Food for thought:
The next President will likely have to fill 2 vacancies on SCOTUS. This is why we must have a REAL CONSERVATIVE running in ‘08. The shape of the court will affect this Country for a long time and we don’t need a Fake Republican at the helm.
“Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg agreed with Planned Parenthood, stating in her dissenting opinion “Today’s decision is alarming,..”
Interesting.
Bader-Ginsburg is possibly a example of where abortion might have been justified.
I have never read SLATE, but in searching for the text of the Supreme Court Opinion upholding President Bush’s statute banning partial birth abortion I came across this article. http://www.slate.com/id/2136719/
I'm looking into the mindset of Mr. Saletan, of what country or nationality I can’t say, but he apparently authored an article dated Feb 23, 2006 long before the latest decision on the subject.
He expressed no concern about the ultimate decision because to use his words, the decision would be “marginal” and not significant because it would only save the lives of “fewer then one in 250” in the US
Go back to sleep, Ruth.
Gee I wonder what George Tiller the baby killer in Wichita is going to do?
I know. Absolutely awful. George Tiller is in bed with our governor and attorney general. This is going to cause him to lose some of his wealth and it’s a federal law. I jumped for joy when I saw the court upheld the ban!
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Why the drop after 1960? (in deaths of women from illegal abortions)
The reasons were new and better antibiotics, better surgery and the establishment of intensive care units in hospitals. This was in the face of a rising population. Between 1967 and 1970 sixteen states legalized abortion. In most it was limited, only for rape, incest and severe fetal handicap (life of mother was legal in all states). There were two big exceptions — California in 1967, and New York in 1970 allowed abortion on demand. Now look at the chart carefully.
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Abortion Statistics - Decision to Have an Abortion (U.S.)
· 25.5% of women deciding to have an abortion want to postpone childbearing
· 21.3% of women cannot afford a baby
· 14.1% of women have a relationship issue or their partner does not want a child
· 12.2% of women are too young (their parents or others object to the pregnancy)
· 10.8% of women feel a child will disrupt their education or career
· 7.9% of women want no (more) children
· 3.3% of women have an abortion due to a risk to fetal health
2.8% of women have an abortion due to a risk to maternal health
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So how many women’s lives have been saved by abortion?
Only about 3% of abortions since 1972 were reported to be “due to a risk to maternal health.” A reasonable person would recognize that not all of those cases represent a lethal risk. But let’s say they did. That means that nearly 45 million fetuses were butchered to save the lives of about 1.3 million women. Or put another way; 35 babies are killed to save each woman.
Abortion was legal in all 50 states prior to Roe v. Wade in cases of danger to the life of the woman.
Roe v Wade: FULL Text (The Decision that wiped out an entire Generation 33 years ago today)
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