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Re: Supreme Court upholds Partial Birth Abortion Ban
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Originally Posted by Dilettante
"Substituted the own judgement"? They certainly used their own judgement; that's their job: to use their judgement and create laws. That they listened to the testimony of an entire parade of medical professionals is right and proper. But in the end, it's the legislature that has to make the call on matters of law; not the doctors.
I can only think of two alternatives here:
Either (1) we forbid that congress pass any law keeping any doctor from doing anything because, after all, the doctors judgement is better than congress'. Or (2) we declare that a group of unelected doctors should henceforth make all the laws relating to doctors.
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I have another alternative. We stop voting for people who write laws that address style and ignore substance. This law will not prevent one single abortion. But it was politically expedient and gave the appearance of caring about the unborn so the medical realities were unimportant as far as congess was concerned.
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A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the utmost extremes of injustice and oppression.
Edward Gibbon
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