The Staton Jones Report

How many times will Congress enact a law that specificially protects unborns at the expense of the woman who bears them? The answer is "over and over". Why do the Religious Right think that a child bearing woman is nothing more than a vessel that, like a soda can, is disposable yet the contents are not? It's not a perfect analogy, but their reasoning, if there is any, is even worse.

Today a federal judge aborted the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act. The irony is not lost on me.

A federal judge in New York ruled today that a federal law that banned a form of abortion is unconstitutional because it does not include an exception for cases where the procedure might be necessary to protect a woman's health. The law, the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, enacted in November, makes it a crime for doctors to perform any "overt act" to "kill the partially delivered living fetus."

Today's ruling, by Judge Richard Conway Casey of the Federal District Court for the Southern District, came in a case brought by the National Abortion Federation and seven physicians. Judge Casey determined that a decision in 2000 by the Supreme Court required that any law limiting abortion must have a clause allowing doctors to go ahead with the procedure if they determine that the risk to a women's health is greater without it.

"While Congress and the lower courts may disagree with the Supreme Court's constitutional decisions, that does not free them from their constitutional duty to obey the Supreme Court's rulings," Judge Casey wrote. In its 2000 ruling, he said, the Supreme Court "informed us that this gruesome procedure may be outlawed only if there exists a medical consensus that there is no circumstance in which any women would potentially benefit from it."

The decision is another victory for proponents of abortion rights, and a setback for the Bush administration, which supports the law along with opponents of abortion.

If they really wanted abortions to not happen, then why do they deny human, nay all sexual beings' nature and endorse birth control?