Supreme Court Reopens Abortion Issue on Alito's First Day

Here we go folks, didn't take them long, did it. ALITOS FIRST FUCKING DAY.

~snip~ The Supreme Court announced today that it will hear a challenge to a federal law outlawing a late-term abortion procedure, reopening the contentious issue on Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s first day on the bench.

Partial Birth Abortion Act Ruled Unconstitutional by U.S. Courts (Feb. 1, 2006) The law, the Partial Birth Abortion Act, was passed in 2003 but was immediately challenged in court and has never taken effect. It was ruled unconstitutional by three federal appeals courts in the last year, in rulings based on a Supreme Court decision in 2000 striking down a similar law passed in Nebraska. ~snip~


http://nytimes.com/2006/02/21/politics/21cnd-abortion.html?hp&ex=1140584400&en=242e3e34dd69e98d&ei=5094&partner=homepage

..or at the very least horribly flamed. So I will refrain. I'm just not in the mood.

keep trying to get the Bush ruling thrown out.

~snip~ The law, the Partial Birth Abortion Act, was passed in 2003 but was immediately challenged in court and has never taken effect. It was ruled unconstitutional by three federal appeals courts in the last year, in rulings based on a Supreme Court decision in 2000 striking down a similar law passed in Nebraska.

In that case, Stenberg v. Carhart, a 5-to-4 majority that included the now-retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor found that any abortion ban must include an exception for the health of the mother. Justice Alito was sworn in three weeks ago as Justice O'Connor's successor after a rancorous confirmation process that focused heavily on the question of abortion. The case accepted by the court today does not involve a challenge to the core ruling that established a legal right to abortion, Roe v. Wade. But it is certain to rekindle questions of whether the court in the post-O'Connor era will be more sympathetic to efforts to limit abortion rights. ~snip~

stare decisis

They may go for it this summer, so they can use abortion bans across the country to really turn out their base.

There isn't even a case in the pipeline. Aside from that the votes to overturn Roe aren't there. There is no chance Roe will be overturned this year. Should there be some miracle and Roe gets overturned, it'd be bye bye republicans. We'd end up with a super majority.

explains D&X.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/abo_pba1.htm

If they are done from five months on, then why do people call them late term abortions?

Wouldn't a five month abortion be a mid-term abortion?

They'll fast-track it so that they can get it overturned by summer.
Then banning abortion will become the big issue for the election,
trumping the war and corruption and treasongate and fuddgate.
That will really turn out their Fundie base,
and their base is all they need -- their base, and

This case was just waiting in the wings for the ScAlito confirmation.:grr: I'm biting my tongue and it's bleeding!:grr:

Damn these fucking assholes. They're legislating from the bench. They aren't "strict Constitutionalists" because if they were they would leave this alone. This has been law for years. Damn them if they overturn this shit!

that goes against the Constitution? Can they be fired?

what is and isn't constitutional.

If the Supreme Court interprets the 21st Amendment (allowing liquor sales again) to mean that you can't wear red underwear, then that's what the Constitution says.

is actually SETTLED? Fuckers.

Not that it matters (to them) but THE PEOPLE in this country do NOT want abortion BANNED.