It’s a start
From The State: Justices affirm ban on partial-birth abortions:
The Supreme Court Wednesday broke new ground in upholding federal restrictions on abortion, with President Bush’s two appointees joining a court majority that said Congress was exercising its license to —promote respect for life, including the life of the unborn.
—The court’s 5-4 decision upholding the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act passed by Congress in 2003 marked the first time justices have agreed a specific abortion procedure could be banned, and the first time since the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that justices approved an abortion restriction that did not contain an exception for the health of the woman.
—The government may use its voice and its regulatory authority to show its profound respect for the life within the woman,— wrote Justice Anthony Kennedy. He said the ban on the controversial method of ending a midterm pregnancy was valid because other abortion procedures were still available to a woman. It provides an exception to save the woman’s life…
While it isn’t a panacea for the ills that have been created since Roe v. Wade, this is the beginning of some kind of common sense.
The most interesting comments I’ve heard are from the abortion fanatics out there, pandering by saying women’s health will be put at risk.
I’m wondering, how? Is Doctor Kildare still delivering babies? You mean we can’t save a mother and a 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9 month old baby?
I really do not believe anything these folks say about health. They simply want to use dead babies as score sheets. Twenty dead in the last hour, twenty victories.
The key is that a baby can’t be killed when medical technology has shown us that many, if not all of these infants can be saved.
You’re giving birth by one or another means to a child and killing it just as it’s partially born, a child that, if placed in an incubator and properly cared for under today’s technology would live. I’d wonder, why make the choice to kill?
Now to me all life is sacred, from conception onward, but even if you’re a complete dolt, and can’t reason beyond the obvious, you have to see that this is nothing more than murder for the sake of murder.
More on this issue from the Pro-Life Action League and Priests for Life. A lot more screaming elsewhere.
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This is a great day for the pro-life movement. We have Senator Sam Brownback to thank for rejecting the Miers nomination and getting Justice Alito on the court.
Psycheout,
While I appreciate your support on this important issue, and while I can certainly understand your heavy duty political leanings and ‘faith in a man,’ this blogger puts no faith in any politician.
My faith is in God and in His ability to bring about His will in all matters. We simply need to follow His will in all things.
Life issues are not tricky, but become political baggage. Anti-abortion ok, I’ve even heard he’s against the Iraq war – kudos there – but when are our boys and girls coming home from there, Kosovo, Korea, and wherever else they may be stationed? Embryonic stem cell research, I imagine he’s against, but haven’t really heard anything. Euthanasia and end of life issues – drawing a blanks on his positions there. Hmm, death penalty – is he ready to commute everyone’s sentence to life in prison?
There are no truly Christian candidates, just candidates where my Venn diagram will find some overlap. Still in all, I can’t vote for anyone with a clean conscience.