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Ladies, if you're going to get pregnant, I recommend not letting the pregnancy endanger you in any way. Oh, and also, make sure your fetus is perfectly healthy, too.
The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will consider the constitutionality of banning a type of late-term abortion, teeing up a contentious issue for a newly-constituted court already in a state of flux over privacy rights…
The outcome will likely rest with the two men that President Bush has recently installed on the court. Justices had been split 5-4 in 2000 in striking down a state law, barring what critics call partial birth abortion because it lacked an exception to protect the health of the mother.
But Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who was the tie-breaking vote, retired late last month and was replaced by Samuel Alito…
The federal law in the current case has no health exception, but defenders maintain that the procedure is never medically necessary to protect a woman's health.
That's a convenient thing to maintain, even if it's not true. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American Nurses Association, and the American Medical Women's Association, also approve the practice when it is medically necessary, which is about 2,000 times a year in America.
The big question, of course, is what is the point of ramming through this legislation without a provision that allows it in cases where the mother’s life it as risk?
