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Personally, I am pro-choice; however, I don't see the medical need for partial-birth abortion. I agree with Timber Loftis--if you cannot decide whether or not to keep a baby after 6 months then you cannot make other life-and-death decisions for the child.
However, I want to leave the topic at hand and touch on something tangentially. If a total ban on abortion is enacted, or a ban that prevents easy/widespread access to abortion providers, then the poor folks will simply go to a back-alley medical "chop shop" and take their chances, while the rich will travel to where such procedures are easily obtainable. The net result will be the same--those who want an abortion, regardless of any legal ban, will find a way to get one.

That being said, it does seem that lately some judge is waiting for a bill to be ratified into law so he (or she) may subsequently rule it unconstitution, sometimes even before the President signs the bill. [img]graemlins/saywhat.gif[/img] The strange thing is that some of these blockage rulings are happening at odd times such as 1:00 in the morning; are the judges staying up all night just to see what happens? Finally, isn't it the job of the Supreme Court, not a simple Federal judge, to rule on the Constitutionality of a law?

If the President wants to play hard-ball with the Judiciary, then enforce the law as passed in spite of the judge's ruling. The judge cannot force the Executive to quit enforcing a law....