Respect for Life returns to our country, partially

Today, in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.

The Supreme Court's conservative majority handed anti-abortion forces a major victory Wednesday in a decision that bans a controversial abortion procedure and set the stage for further restrictions.

For the first time since the court established a woman's right to an abortion in 1973, the justices upheld a nationwide ban on a specific abortion method, labeled partial-birth abortion by its opponents.

The 5-4 decision written by Justice Anthony Kennedy said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman's constitutional right to an abortion.

The law is constitutional despite not containing an exception that would allow the procedure if needed to preserve a woman's health, Kennedy said. "The law need not give abortion doctors unfettered choice in the course of their medical practice," he wrote in the majority opinion.

Doctors who violate the law face up to two years in federal prison.

And, as if on cue and following the same playbook, the Defeat-ocrats bemoan a reduction of "rights". Here's Her Vileness, Mrs. Bill Clinton.

"Today's decision blatantly defies the Court's recent decision in 2000 striking down a state partial-birth abortion law because of its failure to provide an exception for the health of the mother. As the Supreme Court recognized in Roe v. Wade in 1973, this issue is complex and highly personal; the rights and lives of women must be taken into account.

But apparently the rights and lives of unborn children aren't your concern. Aren't you some type of children's advocate?

"It is precisely this erosion of our constitutional rights that I warned against when I opposed the nominations of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito."

Tell me Mrs. Clinton, with exacting specificity, where is the right to abortion located in our nation's constitution. I won't hold my breath for your answer.

And here's His Audaciousness, Barry Obama.

"I am extremely concerned that this ruling will embolden state legislatures to enact further measures to restrict a woman’s right to choose, and that the conservative Supreme Court justices will look for other opportunities to erode Roe v. Wade, which is established federal law and a matter of equal rights for women,” Obama said.

No, no, no, Barry. It will embolden state legislatures to enact further measures to protect a child's right to live. You got it backwards.

And the Breck Girl weighed in.

"The ban upheld by the Court is an ill-considered and sweeping prohibition that does not even take account for serious threats to the health of individual women," Edwards said. "This hard right turn is a stark reminder of why Democrats cannot afford to lose the 2008 election."

Oh, it's a stark reminder alright. Millions of unborn children can't afford for you or your ilk to win in 2008.