Landmark victory for Pro-Life movement - the end of partial birth abortion
Partial birth abortion is now illegal in the United States. See http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070418/D8OJ2NI80.html. This particularly gruesome abortion procedure involves actually birthing the baby, then jabbing a sharp instrument into the back of the skull, sucking out the baby’s brains, and then dragging the mutilated corpse out, hence “partial birth”. Though the ban is supported by supermajority popular support, only with the addition of Roberts and Alito to the Supreme Court was the balance tipped 5-4 against the procedure. One more vote and we can overturn Roe v. Wade! It is also likely that this landmark will spur on Pro-Life efforts across the country. Now more than ever we need one more Supreme Court Justice, and one more Pro-Life president in 2008 will do the trick. If we can avoid Giuliani, and others who are not committed to appointing that crucial 5th Justice, we can end the horror that has claimed nearly 50,000,000 American lives since 1973, and start bringing the fight to the state level.
The 5-4 Supreme Court majority gives a green light to the states to retry abortion restrictions such as parental notification, parental consent, waiting periods, laws requiring a woman be given information on all her options and not just abortion, laws requiring abortion clinics to meet the same health standards as any other medical facility, laws requiring abortuaries to report statutory rape and not help cover it up with abortion, laws making it a double homicide to murder a pregnant woman and her unborn child and laws that recognize as homicide acts where a woman is attacked and her unborn baby killed, etc. - all of which have been vigorously opposed by the Pro-Choice and pro-abortion lobby for so called “women’s rights.”
get ready for anti-Catholic sentiment in America. All five of the justices in the majority are Catholic.
That may be, but so be it. The Church stands for what is right, and if they want to crucify Kennedy for joining the other Catholics, so much the more likely he may feel like overturning Roe. Kennedy has already said Roe was wrongly decided but voted to uphold it due to stare decisis. As more abortion restrictions are put in place, an incremental approach may very well be consistent with leading Kennedy to switch to a Pro-Life vote.
That five Catholics are on the Court is a testament to the great intellectual tradition of the Church. The Court also has two Jews, so we aren’t the only overrepresented religion on the Court. If the Democrats try to make an issue out of that should Bush get another nominee, so much the worse for them.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 was a great day for the pro-life movement. Thanks in part to Senator Brownback we got Justice Alito rather than a questionable Harriet Miers.
She may have been loyal to President Bush, but would she have been loyal to the pro-life movement? Who knows?
Fair point. She was definitely a “stealth” candidate, and with no judicial record, a big question mark. I think one of the things we need to get past is the Ginsburg nonsense that a nominee cannot state their interpretations on Constitutional issues. Given their extremely limited accountability to the people, (life tenure and salary protection), the judicial screening process is where the public gets to voice whether or not to approve these philosopher kings. Miers refused to answer legitimate questions, Brownback led the charge to defeat her. I hope scrutiny of nominees beliefs on key issues becomes a greater part of the process going forward.