Bumper Sticker of the Week...

"STOP REPUBLICAN OFFENDERS.
DON'T RE-ELECT THEM"

absolutely to the point of the day...

Prez Bush and his anti-abortion campaign...fortunately, there is much support in the judiciary to strike down the new ban on so-called "partial birth" abortions.

A NY federal judge has struck down the ban pending constitutional review, as well as a Nebraska judge. SF is soon to follow.

The attempt to label these procedures as "partial birth" abortions, couched in graphic emotion-producing rhetorical descriptions, is designed to create a slippery slope by which the Bush admin. can overturn Roe v. Wade.

It just goes to show how much difference it makes who is sitting in the white house. Forget that Roe v. Wade has been the "law of the land" for 30 years...one guy with too much power and "on a mission from god" can ruin all the constitutional protections that were so hard-won.

For what it is worth, this procedure isn't all that commonly practiced. Most doctors who perform third trimester abortions inject the fetus with a fatal substance in the womb, and the fetus is then passed by the woman as she would a miscarriage or stillborn. Presumably, these types of procedures would be exempted from the ban. But only if the ban is worded very narrowly (and I'm not sure that it is).

But simply because a particular medical procedure seems abhorrant to certain religious types, it does not give them the right to impose their religious beliefs on women and doctors in making medical decisions.

Being steadfast in one's religious beliefs does not qualify one as a doctor (nor does sitting in the white house dressing in a white smock and stethescope).

If you don't like abortion, DON'T HAVE ONE.

Simple as that.