The Coalition of the Swilling

Jeez. AP still hiring ignorant dolts, I see, and not just for writing stupid headlines.

...first time justices ban specific procedure...


...It was the first time the court banned a specific procedure in a case over how — not whether — to perform an abortion...

The court banned nothing. It upheld a ban passed by Congress.

Morons.

Hmm. That should have formatted a little better. Did I mistype a tag?

Astute eye, Mr. Summers.

You're a better man than I, gunga din. I can never figure out the formatting tags in comments. What works when you post doth not work when one commenteth.

About the AP I mean.

I not only have a stute eye, I have a lazy eye. But I've always been a Jack Elam fan...

Thanks for fixing the comment, Sis!

"…does not violate a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion."

I'm sorry, just which amendment in the Bill of Rights would that be exactly?

That would be the Eleventeenth Amendment, 'slinger. Passed on the first of Septober. READ THE CONSTITUTION.

Great, now we'll have to hear all about abortion during the Presidential election. For the last few ones, it hasn't been much of an issue.

I find it curious that this law was ruled consititutional. I'm not at all in favor of infanticide, which no rational person can claim is not the act performed in intact D&E (the description in the court's opinion gave me nightmares), but I don't see how it is the federal government's business to make this procedure illegal.

Even Justice Thomas suggested that had the commerce clause been raised by the petitioner, that he would likely declare the law unconstitutional on those grounds. But they didn't. It's a strange lapse. The cynical side of me wonders why the lawyers on that side were so foolish and I can only conclude that they wanted to enflame abortion sentiments using a law that not much of anyone was against in principle.

Had this law been declared unconstitutional, the pro-lifers would remain as incensed as ever, and the pro-choicers would have yawned and their movement decrease in fervor. They need fervor to remain a viable force in future elections. That's how politicians raise money, that's how they get people to ballot boxes.

There is no federal law for murder. There is no reason to have a federal law for infanticide. By creating a federal law against it, they have bought into the theories that created the court created constitutional right to abortion in the first place.

For the pro-lifers, I suspect this will be a pyrrhic victory.

Good one, Mike!