Re: PB Abortion Ban...Hey Justice Kennedy - READ THIS...

[ourbluenation]

and then do us all a favor and resign.


A Woman's Choice
I needed that now-banned procedure known as 'partial-birth' abortion. Why the Supreme Court's decision to outlaw it was a dark day for American women.



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The ultrasound technician's silence told David and I that something was very wrong. The doctor explained that the baby had anencephaly, a neural tube defect. Large parts of the brain were missing. Babies who survive birth may live days or weeks or months, but they perceive nothing, not even a mother's touch. There was no mistake, and nothing to be done. I scheduled an abortion. On Wednesday, May 14, 2003, in the early morning, 17 weeks into the pregnancy, David drove me to the operating room and I had my abortion. That night we told Toby and Simone that the baby did not grow all the parts that a baby needs to live, and had died. We hugged and cried.

On Wednesday, April 18, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court suggested that women do not fully comprehend the abortion procedure, and thus may come to regret it. Not this woman. Four years ago, I asked my doctor whether the Federal Partial-Birth Abortion Act, which was then being considered by Congress, would outlaw the dilation and evacuation procedure he intended to use. Yes, he told me, it would.

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My health and future fertility depended on the best available medical care, which in this case meant that I needed the intact dilation and evacuation procedure, or "partial-birth abortion" to use the non-medical, ideological term. This wrongly politicized, legitimate and standard medical procedure results in the removal of the fetus with the least probing and instrumentation, greatly reducing the risk to the woman of bleeding, infection and uterine rupture, all of which may lead to infertility.

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Last Wednesday was a dark day for women, and for the men in their lives who care about the health, autonomy, freedom and equality of women in 21st-century America. The high court took a giant step backward when it upheld the federal abortion ban, sweeping aside decades of its own constitutional precedent protecting women's health, in favor of ideology.

The Supreme Court decision means that judges and lawmakers may now dictate to doctors what they can and cannot do in the operating room. It means that surgeons who want to do what's best for their patients do so now at the risk of criminal prosecution. And it means that thousands of women will undergo second-best procedures carrying greater risk; many will face dire health consequences, as well as the loss of future fertility. We are now in a country where judges and lawmakers are allowed to tell doctors how best to care for their patients. This cannot stand.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18278305/site/newsweek/

[spanone]

1. It is a sick nation that dictates medicine to doctors. Sick & dying.

This is the results (and just the beginning) of bu$hco mixing religion & politics.

[Morgana LaFey]

9. and your concern for the women involved is ...

what, exactly? And let's be clear: "the women involved" are ALL women who are of child-bearing age or below. ALL women, because none can know who will be affected by the dire need for this procedure.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Women do understand what an abortion means

and it is not an easy choice to make--but the choice should be based upon a doctor's opinion, not the opinion of the Supreme Court.

[Jim__]

3. Do you have a link?

I'd like to read that whole story. Thanks.

[ourbluenation]

4. Oops - yeah - I just added it.

[ThomCat]

5. It is sad and disgusting that male judges

can write an opinion stating that women don't understand what they're doing, and therefore judges are justified in making medical decisions for them. x(

We need to fight like hell to get a legislative correction. And then we need to make sure that every one of these men gets a hell of a lot of blowback somehow.

I wish I knew how... :(

[cascadiance]

6. Unfortunately, Kennedy is about the only one that might resign during 2008 pres's term!

So, part of me wants him to stay on the court until then so that if and when he does resign, we can get someone to replace him that will restore balance to the court the way it should be!

On the other hand, perhaps sometime between now and then we'll get fuel to help us impeach one of the other gang of five too.

[Bjornsdotter]

7. I'm a bit confused

...what medical school did the 5 justices attend? It appears that they are practicing medicine without a license.....rat bastards.

I'm so sorry for everything you went through...:hug:

Cheers

[femrap]

8. Those 5 Justices are part of the

American Taliban.

[ourbluenation]

10. does anyone have a link to the majority opinion?

[slipslidingaway]

11. Here and K&R.

http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/05-380_All.pdf

from

http://balkin.blogspot.com/2007/04/gonzales-v-carhart-three-comments.html

[ourbluenation]

12. thanks