Supreme Court Begins Undoing Roe

[okiebybirth]

quote:Originally posted by guido911
Rove's playbook:  What are you talking about?

Look at every topic you start on this forum. I'm beginning to think you are reading "How to imitate Rove for Dummies". Shock and Awe is over.

[guido911]

DM:  Yeah, that South Korea thread rings of Rove, just like the "Oklahoma Tax Burden" and Mother's Love thread.

If you want to know the issues that most concern me, they are pro-life and pro-veteran/war on terror. If protecting the unborn and supporting our troops is Rovian, well, so be it.

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by okiebybirth

quote:Originally posted by guido911
Rove's playbook:  What are you talking about?

Look at every topic you start on this forum. I'm beginning to think you are reading "How to imitate Rove for Dummies". Shock and Awe is over.

You mean M.C. Rove?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5RD9BhcCo&mode=related&search=

I can't hear his name anymore without thinking of that. []

[Trams]

The statute apparently bans a particularly gruesome procedure.  The "sky-is-falling" response by abortion supporters is therefore particularly inapt.  

For those curious enough to read it, the opinion describes the banned procedure in detail, noting that the statute applies when the fetus is actually vaginally delivered to a certain position, and where the head lodges in the cervix, whereupon the doctor pierces or crushes the fetal skull after the partial delivery.  

According to the opinion:

quote: "The procedure extracts the fetus in a way conducive to pulling out its entire body, instead of ripping it apart."  

One abortion-doctor stated that:

quote: "The right-handed surgeon slides the fingers of the left hand along the back of the fetus and 'hooks' the shoulders of the fetus with the index and and ring fingers (palm down).  While maintaining this tension, lifting the cervix and applying traction to the shoulders with the fingers of the left hand, the surgeon takes a pair of blunt curved Metzenbaum scissors in the right hand.  He carefully advances the tip, curved down, along the spine and under his middle finger until he feels it contact the base of the skull under the tip of his middle finger.  The surgeon then forces the scissors into the base of the skull or into the foramen magnum.   Having safely entered the skull, he spreads the scissors to enlarge the opening.  The surgeon removes the scissors and introduces a suction catheter into this hole and evacuates the skull contents.  With the catheter still in place, he applies traction to the fetus, removing it completely from the patient."

So, basically the statute prohibits infanticide.  I think the federal government has a sincere and legitimate interest in preventing infanticide.

But some hope still remains for those against this decision.  The Act excludes most D&E procedures in which the doctor removes the fetus in pieces.