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A Major League Supreme Court
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Raoul Lowery Contreras/HispanicVista.com - April 25, 2007
A Major
League Supreme Court
By Raoul Lowery Contreras
Finally, after 34 years the United States Supreme Court has come to its
senses and voted 5-4 to restrict an op-ended "license to kill" it authorized
in 1973 in Roe v. Wade. We do recall that even that decision restricted
abortion (to first trimester), it was never totally open-ended as claimed by
its proponents.
An average of 1.5 million American babies a year (51-million) have not been
born since then, their lives ended by doctors (for a fee, of course), and
lawyers (for a fee, of course). Cheering them on have been feminist groups
more concerned about women’s "rights" and "freedom of choice" than the
babies they carry, even if for only one trimester.
Rational of feminists: They aren’t babies, they are fetuses (or is it fetii?)
A woman can do what she wants with her body (a fetus, not being a baby, is
only part of the woman’s body).
In a 5-4 vote with the majority opinion written by Justice Kennedy, the
court ruled that the congressionally passed law restricting "partial birth
abortion" a doctor’s procedure that kills a living baby 8 or 9 months along
and ready to enter the world. The killing involves partial birth and then
crushing the head of the baby who can survive outside the womb.
The Court said no, no more, and in doing so, it tosses aside a previous
decision (5-4) that allowed the procedure if there was no "health exception"
in which a doctor (s) could certify that the mother’s health was in danger
if the baby was allowed to be born.
So, what kind of reaction do we have on the streets of America? Ellen
Goodman writes in the Boston Globe that women have been shoved aside and
have no say in this abortion decision and the rules that govern such silly
little things like life and death. She calls Justice Sam Alito, a "wannabe
justice" who promised to hold to precedent (keep abortion totally legal no
matter what, based on a decision in 1973), and criticizes him for violating
his "promise."
She points out that when President Bill Clinton vetoed such a bill he
surrounded himself with women. President Bush, she points out, surrounded
himself with men when he signed this bill into law.
In fact, she now writes: "Now women are again disappeared." What a blowhard
she is...a hysterical feminine blowhard who totally accepts the fantasies of
feminists that are based on lies.
Facts: Women tend to vote in higher numbers than men do and that is
particularly true of married women. So, women voted for congress people.
Women’s numbers in Congress, both in the House and Senate, are higher than
ever in the country’s history (considering especially that women were not
granted the vote until 1920). Women congress people voted for this
particular partial-birth abortion bill, though not all did, of course.
We are talking about millions of women who voted for Congress and women
Congress people who voted for it. Women have not been "disappeared" in this
process as Goodman bleats. They have fully participated in the process.
The fact that ultra-liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bade Ginsburg
disagreed with the majority is nothing to rely on for proof that women are
against a ban on partial birth abortion. On the contrary, most women,
particularly married ones, disagree with Ginsburg on many issues.
Five Supreme Court justices voted to overturn "precedent" despite Goodman’s
view that such is something sinful. Only a few lives will be saved, but a
few is better than all dying at the hands of paid doctors who are supposed
to "do no harm."
More importantly, the Court decided that not all precedents are worth living
and deciding under.
In 1954, the Court overthrew the 59-year old precedent of Plessy v. Ferguson
which allowed and encouraged segregation of races. It allowed "separate but
equal" schools and water fountains, parks, stadiums, movie theaters, housing
neighborhoods, the military, hospitals, buses, and trains not only for
American Blacks, but Asians, Mexicans and women like Ellen Goodman.
Women, after all, were "disappeared" and not allowed to vote in 1895, or to
attend the colleges of their choice, or be doctors, lawyers or business or
government professionals.
If the United States Constitution is a living document, as claimed by some,
then the Supreme Court must recognize the real world of life, death and
babies. To recognize that to crush the head of a baby for any reason moments
before birth is unacceptable makes this Supreme Court historically
noteworthy and a credit to the President who molded it, George W. Bush.
Contreras’ books, THE ILLEGAL ALIEN: A DAGGER INTO THE HEART OF AMERICA?? and, A HISPANIC VIEW OF AMERICAN POLITICS AND THE POLITICS OF IMMIGRATION are available at www.amazon.com and www.barnesandnoble.com