I Told You This Would Happen
I mentioned it in 2004 and again last February
We “reelected” George W Bush, who will never have to carry a child, and he proceeded to nominate a token woman to the Supreme Court: Harriet Miers. Since her shellacking, he has been able to nominate conservative men (who will also never have to carry a child) to stack the court in his favor. These men have read this law, that requires a woman to argue in court that this procedure is medically necessary to get a waiver, have determined that there are “enough” other procedures available that banning it does not put an “undue burden” on a woman whose life may depend upon terminating her pregnancy in this manner.
The debate seems to be framed in overly simple terms. Sure you can take acetaminophen, ibuprofen, naproxen or aspirin for a headache. So if congress banned ibuprofen no big deal right? What if that’s the only one that worked? Or if they banned everything except naproxen (which doesn’t work for me)? Does it seem like a simple comparison now? A caller on talk radio said that cesarean sections are available, so why use a method that is potentially medically safer? The caller happened to be female - scary.
So when are we going to get to Clinton’s “safe, legal and rare”? If this administration and SC have their way it will only be rare. The elite who could afford them before they were legal will be right back where they were and so will those who cannot.
