Justice Kennedy from the New York Times on the Supreme Court's ruling on the partial-birth abortion ban:
“It is self-evident that a mother who comes to regret her choice to abort must struggle with grief more anguished and sorrow more profound when she learns, only after the event, what she once did not know: that she allowed a doctor to pierce the skull and vacuum the fast-developing brain of her unborn child, a child assuming the human form.”
Does anyone, conservative or liberal, other than Kennedy buy this??
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I like how he says "assuming human form." Does that mean the baby is not a human?
I think the whole idea of the partial birth abortion sounds really terrible...something no one would do unless they have to. I guess he's forgetting that. Or ignoring it.
Kennedy seems to say abortion is bad because women can't deal with the fallout.
Ginsburg counters that this is archaic thinking, akin to suggesting women should still be slavin' behind the kitchen counter...
I think it's so interesting how such an issue, as divisive as it is, can so thoroughly polarize the highest court in the US.
Sure it's not the first time it's happened. But a short time ago, before Alito and Roberts were on the scene, a very different verdict would have been read.
In other words, whoever says the world changes at a snail's pace doesn't pay attention to new appointments to the Supreme Court.
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