Since Roe v Wade we've all lived with the notion-based on the ruling itself-of judicially protected first term abortions. The Court, specifically wrote, that the States in turn would be allowed to prohibit later term procedures. I doubt I even knew until the mid 1990's that second, bordering on third trimester pregnancies were being routinely and legally aborted.
But as abortion laws were rewritten by the States, certain exceptions creeped into the legislation. Amendments protecting a woman's "health" were often included. Suddenly a lawyer could argue health stretches to
mental health or that health of the fetus meant it was legally ok to abort babies with physical handicaps. Swedish courts have ruled that a mothers choice to abort based on the babies
gender is permissible and we all know of the disproportionate number of females aborted by mothers in China.
Tiller wasn't targeted because he was a run of the mill abortion doctor. Instead he attracted attention because of his specialty-late terms. He advertised as being the doctor of last resort. He was tried (and acquitted in a poorly prosecuted case) of breaking Kansas law and new and separate charges were being drawn up as he died. Tiller was a douchebag.
While I'm not going to sit in judgment of who should be brought to homicidal death, I do find it deeply ironic that the murder of a man who allegedly performed 60,000 abortions-many of them late-has received so much attention from the liberal press. Absolutely astounding. I think Huffingtonwhore, who I normally boycott to deny her page views, had a half dozen essays on Tiller. In a nation that widely prohibits gambling, prostitution, drugs and prohibits women-and only women-from topless sunbathing, it's hard to fathom that Tiller is some posthumous icon of libertarianism from the uptight, rules orientated, fewest to procreate, cultural elites. Alas Tiller's allure with the left goes much deeper. To them abortion is an
institution. A de facto by judicia decree member in the Bill of Rights. I suppose to some whacked out Obama Girl an abortionist being slain is akin to me getting pissed at Rosie O'Dyke or Michael Moorefood for defaming Charlton Heston.
In Alan Keyes Quixotic 2004 campaign for the U.S. Senate against one Barrack Obama, the subject of Obama's legislative support for late term abortion was a rallying cry for the Conservative Right. Days before the Keyes campaign began imploding from the same media gimmickry that later propelled Obama past Clinton, the multi-decade cartoonist, Jack Higgins, of the ultra-Democrat Chicago Sun-Times took one of the best jabs ever at The One with this poignant jem. Yes it's about what's morally right.
