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Re: What Is A Partial Birth Abortion? -- here we go again! Sheesh! From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com) Sun Apr 22 22:42:36 2007 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Dr Eberhard Lisse: "Re: Tubular, Schmulbular" Previous message: Meenan, Anna: "Re: What Is A Partial Birth Abortion? -- here we go again! Sheesh!" In reply to: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: What Is A Partial Birth Abortion? -- here we go again! Sheesh!" Next in thread: Dr Eberhard Lisse: "Re: What Is A Partial Birth Abortion? -- here we go again! Sheesh!" >From David Brooks (Excerpt only)- The Carhart case, which the Supreme Court decided last week, is prompted by revulsion over the practice of killing late-term fetuses. Yet for reasons having to do with political tactics, the law that was upheld wouldn’t even prevent a single late-term abortion. It would forbid doctors from crushing the skull of the fetus, but would permit them to poison and dismember it. Furthermore, the reasoning Justice Anthony Kennedy used to uphold the law — about mothers who may come to regret their abortions — is not only bizarre, but far removed from the original revulsion that prompted the whole issue. Meanwhile, when you look at the statements of the abortion rights forces, you find they can’t even look this matter in the face. Read the statements by the Democratic presidential candidates. Read the protests from Planned Parenthood and Naral. They can’t even bring themselves to mention the word “fetus.” They are terrified of having an honest discussion about human life, so they have built this lofty etiquette of evasion that treats abortion as the moral equivalent of a tonsillectomy. If we could get this issue away from the abortion professionals and their orthodoxies, we could reach a sensible solution: abortion would be legal, with parental consent for minors, during the first four or five months, and illegal except in extremely rare circumstances afterward. Instead we get what we saw last week. A law that doesn’t address the core issue, a court decision so tangled in jurisprudence as to be impermeable to the outside world, and howling protests by people who can’t face the central concern. Art At Sun, 22 Apr 2007, DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote: > >In a message dated 4/22/07 7:19:59 PM, dpriver@aol.com writes: > >> There are a lot of debatable issues here, but one thing cannot be >> debated. This supreme court ruling could not have occurred without the >> opinions of new justices nominated by a born-again Christian president >> whose Republican party has been hijacked by the religious right. I hope >> all of our physician colleagues keep that in mind when it comes to >> deciding in 2008 which party's presidential candidate to vote for. >> >Just for the sake of debate ... > >If the shoe was on the other foot and someone accused the "new justices >ijacked >by athiest and elitist secularist socialists," would that actually address >the issues? Or would that be condemned as name calling? > >r >whether 5 of the justices are Catholic, or whatever, does NOT address the >eople >who don't HAVE an argument. > >Joe P. > >-- >************************************** > -- art fougner, md "May The Wings of Liberty Never Lose a Feather." - Jack Burton Next message: Dr Eberhard Lisse: "Re: Tubular, Schmulbular" Previous message: Meenan, Anna: "Re: What Is A Partial Birth Abortion? -- here we go again! Sheesh!" In reply to: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: What Is A Partial Birth Abortion? -- here we go again! Sheesh!" Next in thread: Dr Eberhard Lisse: "Re: What Is A Partial Birth Abortion? -- here we go again! Sheesh!"

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