Choice Cut
Having searched in vain for bloggers more serious and thoughtful than I to steer you to, I'll simply have to tackle this one on my own.
The Supreme Court waited until just the right moment -- a day when the media is fixated on the worst U.S. mass murder in history -- to quietly let slip that they've just perpetrated their own massacre of women's rights. By a slim margin (5-4), they upheld a nationwide ban on the so-called partial birth abortion. (You can thank the National Right to Life Committee for that lovely term.)
No less than six federal courts have found the law to be unconstitutional. To which the Supremes had this to say: "Whatever."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the only woman among the nine justices, said 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.
One small step by 5 old men, one giant leap backward for womankind.
Court Upholds Ban on Abortion Procedure [AP]
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