All senators who voted for cloture on Scalito:

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Wed Apr-18-07 11:34 AM
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All senators who voted for cloture on Scalito:

Edited on Wed Apr-18-07 11:34 AM by whometense

F*** you.

http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/04/18/federal_abortion_ban/index.html

Supreme Court upholds federal abortion ban

Well, there you go. Conservatives can complain all they want about the president's performance on same-sex marriage and immigration, but the Bush-stacked Supreme Court -- having just announced its decision to uphold the Federal Abortion Ban -- has officially handed them a giant freaking gift. As the New York Times/AP reports, "The 5-4 ruling said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman's constitutional right to an abortion."

Which is funny, because it does. The 2003 law was been struck down by six separate courts as unconstitutional. It carries no exception for health risks to the mother; it's also said to be worded so vaguely as to cover -- at least in chilling effect -- some of the earliest, most common abortion procedures. The procedure it bans in particular is itself not only rare, but also necessary in some of the most heartbreaking cases. Just ask the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, or Gretchen Voss. (By the way, anytime the press lazily calls anything other than the original title of this bill "partial birth abortion," the terrorists win.)

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg pulled few punches in her scathing dissent. "For the first time since Roe, the Court blesses a prohibition with no exception protecting a woman's health," she said. The ban "and the Court's defense of it cannot be understood as anything other than an effort to chip away" -- with "flimsy and transparent justifications" -- "at a right declared again and again by this Court." <...>

Pardon my language, but this just pisses me off, predictable as it was. Here are the yea votes, dems in bold.

http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00001

YEAs ---72
Akaka (D-HI)
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Allen (R-VA)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burns (R-MT)
Burr (R-NC)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carper (D-DE)
Chafee (R-RI)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Enzi (R-WY)
Frist (R-TN)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Inouye (D-HI)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kohl (D-WI)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Santorum (R-PA)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stevens (R-AK)
Sununu (R-NH)
Talent (R-MO)
Thomas (R-WY)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)

Needless to say, John Kerry is my hero.