Quote of the Day

"The latest decision tolerates, indeed applauds, federal intervention to ban nationwide a procedure found necessary and proper in certain cases by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists." - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The Supreme Court upheld a federal ban on "partial birth abortion". It's part of the Republican's "war on science". Despite being told by the medical community that the procedure may be necessary, the Republicans don't care. All they care about is the irrelevant.

The Republican-controlled Congress responded in 2003 by passing a federal law that asserted the procedure is gruesome, inhumane and never medically necessary to preserve a woman's health.

The ruling does nothing to prevent abortion as a concept. It merely restricts that particular procedure. However, the alternate procedure to PBA is to;

Abortion opponents say the law will not reduce the number of abortions performed because an alternate method — dismembering the fetus in the uterus — is available and, indeed, much more common.

So, what was the point of the law in the first place? The fetus is destroyed in any method, but the law was passed because PBA is "gruesome"? That is logically irrelevant. The method makes no difference, and the outcome is the same, so if the medical community (i.e. professionals) say that they need the options of procedures, then a conservative ruling like this does nothing but tie the hands of doctors. That's the real inhumanity here.

In any case, I'm personally opposed to late term abortions, but do not believe that my personal opposition should be somebody else's imperative.