Posted on 05/20/2008 4:38:17 PM PDT by Baladas
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that a Virginia law banning an abortion procedure was unconstitutional because it infringed on a woman's right to end her pregnancy.
The 2-1 decision by the appeals court based in Richmond, Virginia, was a victory for abortion rights advocates who had challenged the 2003 law that bans what it terms "partial birth infanticide."
The U.S. Supreme Court last year upheld a federal law, the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, saying it prohibited only a clearly defined method. It marked the first time the court has ever upheld a nationwide ban on a specific abortion procedure.
But the appeals court ruled the Virginia law was substantially broader than the federal law and must be struck down because it would burden a woman's right to choose an abortion as early as the second trimester of pregnancy
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First the "gay marriage" BS in CA, now this - the left is giving Juan wedge issue after wedge issue now.
The second trimester of pregnancy is "early"? Gimme a break.
By the start of the second trimester, a woman has known about the pregnancy for a couple of months!
Period.
“... unconstitutional because it infringed on a woman’s right to end her pregnancy.” So, now we see what liberals believe ... murdering an alive unborn child is protected by the activist judges because it is a way a woman can end ‘her’ pregnancy. Make no mistake, these same black-robed oligarchs can just as easily terminate alive born human beings if they decide it allows some nebulous right of others to be upheld. Well, except the black-robed ghouls who have proven they do nbot consider an alive unborn child to be a human being and thus mere fodder for killing to upholda woman’s ‘right to choose’ to murder for her convenience. And before some fool tries to cite pregnancy termination to save a woman’s life, consider that the alive unborn have been brought into the air world and survived as young as 20 months gestational age. Partial birth infanticide is all about granting women the god-like power to murder at will or whim ... and you don’t see rhetoric like ‘a father’s right to choose, do you?
These people make Dr. Mengala look like Dr. Suess.
The courts are out of control. But what can be done?
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