The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to uphold the late-term abortion ban. This is a terrible sign of the new Alito-Roberts court. It is an awful sign about the future of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion. And it is a grim sign for women, our health, and the future of our right to make those decisions.
Justice Ginsburg, according to Reuters, called the decision alarming.
She took the rare step of reading parts of her dissent from the bench.Bush may be gone in 2008, but his legacy through these two anti-woman court appointees, will live on, a very long time. For those who voted for Nader in 2000 because they thought there was no difference between Bush and Gore, I give you: the criminalization of abortion."In candor, the Partial Birth Abortion Act and the court's defense of it cannot be understood as anything other than an effort to chip away at a right declared again and again by this court -- and with increasing comprehension of its centrality to women's lives," she said.
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Of course, you're absolutely right about this legacy. But for those of us who live in red states there are times when voting for Nader is the only way you can express your frustration with the whole system. Especially when it's early afternoon and your state has already "gone red" before you even voted and you know your vote won't count. Depressing, isn't it?
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