Ginsburg: "....the Court blesses a prohibition with no exception safeguarding a woman's health."

[seafan]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/18/AR2007041800710_pf.html">High Court Upholds Curb on Abortion, April 18, 2007

"Today's decision is alarming," Ginsburg wrote for the minority. "It 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....And, for the first time since Roe, the Court blesses a prohibition with no exception safeguarding a woman's health."

She added: "Retreating from prior rulings that abortion restrictions cannot be imposed absent an exception safeguarding a woman's health, the Court upholds an Act that surely would not survive under the close scrutiny that previously attended state-decreed limitations on a woman's reproductive choices."

This is a sad day for the women of America. It's up to the young women, our daughters, to take up the mantle of reproductive rights, for we will surely lose them under the crushing burden of this extreme right wing ideological rule.


May Sanda Day O'Connor live in eternal condemnation.

[valerief]

1. Maybe they'll ban heart surgery for men to even out the oppression. nt

[The Count]

2. BLAME ALL THE SENATORS WHO VOTED FOR W'S STOOGES TOO!

It's not like they didn't know what it meant. We're stuck with them for a long, long time!

[Erika]

3. Today, women became 2nd class citizens

With the fetus valued more than the mother's life.

They will keep chipping away at women's rights to set us back 100 years.

May the democrats who allowed Thomas, Alito, and Roberts to be confirmed live in eternal condemnation.

[Gloria]

4. Exactly. And now I want to hear them "fight" for us. how about starting with

this meme....that it is now clear the GOP (and Repuke lite Democrats) and their freak judges apparently do not consider women worthy of having their life protected.....that we are basically chattel in their view. OK Dems? Got that?

Phooey. In my lifetime I've fought for these rights; marched for these rights; donated for these rights and in my lifetime, these rights are fading fast. Yes, the RW is the main culprit...but Democrats haven't really fought hard for us at all.

I'm on the verge of totally dropping out of politics. It's not worth the effort anymore.... The sellout is too far gone....

[ninkasi]

5. As a woman well past child-bearing age

this decision sickens me. I have two daughters...one I gave birth to, and one I was blessed with through marriage. I have three granddaughters, one born to my son, two born to my step-daughter. I have one great-granddaughter. My only desire is for them, and for all other women, to be able to make their own informed medical choices, based on what is best for them. This is a decision which each woman should be able to make guided by her own conscience, her doctor's medical advice, and whatever importance the woman chooses to make with her own family's input.

This should not be a matter of political consideration. I would be horrified at being in a position to dictate medical decisions to another woman, based not on science, but on purely what I felt as a personal conviction. I only have the right to make such decisions for myself. What makes conservatives think that they are entitled to live their own lives dictated by their own beliefs, but to impose their beliefs on others, as well?


This is just about as far from democracy as we can get. This is nothing less than a form of religious tyranny, because the basis of the decision is not based on law, or common sense, but on the religious beliefs of a radical portion of our population. I long for a return to sanity, and democracy, to our country.

I would love to liberate some children born to strict, fundamentalist families, from the fears of eternal hell they are preached from the time they are babies, but it's not my right to do so. Why should their parents be able to force laws based on their beliefs, on the lives of my children?