Bye-Bye
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Sunday April 22, 2007
The first nail in the coffin of women’s abortion rights was driven home on Wednesday when the Supreme Court, along ideological lines, ruled 5-4 to uphold a federal ban on the medical procedure known as intact dilation and extraction, or, by its more emotionally manipulative moniker, partial birth abortion.
The majority opinion, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy and signed by Justices Alito, Scalia, and Thomas — as well as Chief Justice John Roberts — should leave no doubt in anyones’ mind that an ideological agenda spearheaded by Ronald Regan over twenty years ago is finally coming to fruition.
Justice Kennedy, throughout his admonishing majority opinion, often invoked non-secular terms like morality to justify the court’s position and played to the religious base by stating that the ruling “expresses respect for the dignity of human life.”
In writing for the minority however, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the sole female member of the court, offered that the decision was “at odds with our jurisprudence” and would place physicians in the “untenable” position of having to parse obtuse legal guidelines before determining a course of treatment for their patient that wouldn’t place them add odds with the law.
As for this Leftwing Nutjob, as I stated at the outset of this piece, there should be no doubt whatsoever that a religious agenda is afoot within the high court of the land, and that Wednesday’s ruling represents the beginning of the end for a woman’s reproductive freedom in this country. For when Right to Life activists and their supporters openly state that their ultimate goal is to outlaw all abortions, you had better believe that this ruling will only embolden that movement and prompt them to move more cases into the judicial system in older to reach that goal.
I only hope that my earlier prediction that President Bush will get to appoint another justice before he leaves office will not come to pass.
Court rejects challenge to abortion ruling — USAToday.com
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Podcast #117
By Thomas JeffreyArticle Posted: Tuesday April 15, 2008
Leftwing Nutjob Podcast, Episode 117, for Sunday, April 13, 2008
Penn hits the bricks, Iran in the spotlight again, the Obama money machine, al Qaeda’s rising star and more!