California Conservative

The Supreme Court has just given the pro life movement its biggest victory in ages. Here’s some of the details:

The opponents of the act “have not demonstrated that the Act would be unconstitutional in a large fraction of relevant cases,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion.

The decision pitted the court’s conservatives against its liberals, with President Bush’s two appointees, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, siding with the majority. Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia also were in the majority.

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

This provides a big morale boost for pro lifers. It also gives pro choice organizations a fundraising tool. Rest assured that every Democrat presidential candidate will have something to say on this ruling, too. This ruling will bring out the pro choice crowd with their slippery slope arguments. I don’t think people will find their arguments compelling.

I remember the first time the Senate voted on this bill. Daniel Patrick Moynihan voted not to ban the procedure. The next time it was brought up, he voted to ban the procedure, saying that “it was too close to infanticide” for his liking. That’s worth noting because nobody ever accused Sen. Moynihan of being a shrinking violet on abortion issues.

I also remember Ted Kennedy railing that the bill was nothing more than payback to “rabid right wingers.” I recall a Sen. Santorum asking Kennedy if he thought Patrick Kennedy and Dick Gephardt as “rabid right wingers.” Kennedy say that “of course they aren’t”, at which point Santorum pointed out that they voted to ban the procedure. Teddy tried going back on offense but Santorum would have nothing of that. He said that thoughtful people recognized the procedure for what it is.

Frankly, the people who can decry this ban aren’t worth listening to. Partial Birth abortion is a barbaric procedure that doesn’t ever have to be used. That’s essentially what Justice Kennedy wrote. There just isn’t any evidence that the procedure has any medical value.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 18th, 2007 at 8:33 am and is filed under Activism, Author: Gary Gross, Domestic Policies, Election 2008, Judiciary, W. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.