April 20, 2007
this is not a picture of gay cats
The last three times I tried to write something here, Firefox decided to lame out and die on me. Oh well. What I was writing was probably useless anyway.
Since no one reads this except for people looking for pictures of Kathryn-Jean Lopez or gay cats, I may as well complain about Justice Kennedy's certifiably stupid justification for upholding the partial-birth abortion ban (Gonzales v. Carhart).
(1) Arguing that removing fetuses from the womb intact (partial-birth abortion) is objectively worse than removing them piece by piece (which procedure has no pithy, heartstring-tugging nickname) because they look more like babies is wholly corrupt, whether you're pro-life or pro-choice. What the fetus looks like coming out should really make no difference.
2) Arguing that the procedure is never necessary to protect a woman's health, but maybe necessary to save her life, is absurd.
3) Marching out the paternalistic ole saving-women-from-their-own-regret, bond-of-love-between-a-woman-and-her-child shibboleth is plain infuriating. By which I mean, thank God the Supreme Court of the United States has the fortitude to protect my fragile, hormonal self from my own potential future regret (in the unlikely event that my health, but not life, is in danger)!
4) On another note, why does my uterus fall under the category of "interstate commerce"?
Posted by onion slayer at April 20, 2007 03:54 PM