Ruling.
The world seems exceedingly small to me this morning as I sit at a computer in North Africa reading about yesterday's partial birth abortion ruling from the Supreme Court. It's the first full news story I've read in almost a month and I can see that things haven't changed much in my absence. The headline reads "Abortion Ruling Emboldens Opponents." Maybe I'm super touchy, but the majority of time I see emboldens used when talking about insurgents and criminals. It's sort of a negative word to me, and certainly a negative spin on a very overdue and positive ruling.
But maybe I'm just being over-sensitive. Let's read a little further:
Wednesday's ruling — a turning point in a debate that has engaged the nation for more than three decades — confirmed the worst fears of abortion rights supporters and the highest hopes of abortion opponents: that Bush's push to leave his stamp on the court could open the way for a host of new abortion restrictions.
Yes, this debate has been raging since the Supreme Court looked hard enough into the Constitution to find a woman's right to murder her child in privacy. If only those irritating pro-lifers anti-choicers would just give up! But how interesting that poor President Bush is held responsible for yet another blight on humanity. His terrible urge to 'leave his stamp' is having dire consequences, etc., etc. While we're on the subject of bashing Bush, let's throw in a little bit of old and moldy sour grapes:
Gandy <National Organization of Women President> called Wednesday's decision the court's most political since Bush v. Gore, the 2000 ruling that handed Bush the presidency.
The funny thing is, all this hogwash is quoted before the reporter gets to the really interesting stuff -- after 30 years of relentless and continual indoctrination about a woman's right to choose, public opinion is pretty clear. The vast majority of Americans want some restrictions on abortion and over 60% agree with the Court's ruling against partially delivering a baby and then jamming a fork into its brains.
On a side note, as if I didn't have enough reasons not to vote for Mr. Obama, I read that he endorsed a bill giving a doctor the right to smother the baby if somehow it was delivered before the doctor got the fork in position.
