Partial Birth Abortion Ban Struck Down

It is little known among Americans that in the United States abortion is legal for all nine months of pregnancy. A women can decide to 'terminate' her unborn child for any reason she desires, at any stage in the pregnancy. All with the full consent of the law.

Republicans were finally able to pass a common sense ban that prohibited late term abortions. A ban that if the Democrats had controlled any part of congress, or the presidency, would have never allowed to pass. In fact, this partial birth abortion ban, named after the gruesome method the abortion is performed, was voted against by more than half of the Democrats in the senate. Republicans had to control all three houses of congress, the House Of Representatives, the Senate, and the Presidency to have a chance to pass it.

Well now that ban has been struck down, twice. The article writes,

Louise Melling, director of the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project, said her group was thrilled by the ruling.


U.S. District Judge Richard C. Casey — one of three federal judges across the country to hear simultaneous challenges to the law earlier this year — faulted the ban for not containing an exception to protect a woman's health, something the Supreme Court has made clear is required in laws prohibiting particular types of abortion.


Casey, who was appointed to the bench by President Clinton in 1997, was considered by some observers to be the best legal hope for the law's supporters.


Of course, whenever a common sense law is struck down, you can always find liberals behind it.

Also, don't let this whole "health of the mother" exception fool you. Even the Catholic Church, the most ardent pro-life group around, allows 'abortion' if the mothers life is at risk. The reason pro-life people are against this 'health of the mother' clause is because it can be used by the patient for any reason. There is no objective measure of whether her health is jeapordized. For example, the mother can walk into an abortion clinic and say that the pregnancy is causing her stomache problems, and nausea, things typical of normal pregnancies. And that can be reason enough to perform the nine month abortion.

This is a very sad day.

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