NOT THE SHARPEST KNIFE IN THE DRAWER: Constitutional Destructionism
Silent on Monday's massacre at Virginia Tech, Hillary wasted no time releasing a statement on the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision to uphold the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act passed by Congress in 2003 (Gonzales, Attorney General v. Carhart et al):
This decision marks a dramatic departure from four decades of Supreme Court rulings that upheld a woman's right to choose and recognized the importance of women's health. 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. 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 [emphasis, The Stiletto’s].
Leaving aside the fact that whenever new gun control laws are passed, Hillary never issues statements about "erosion of our constitutional rights" specifically asserted in the Second Amendment, she curiously uses the vast right wing conspiracy’s preferred terminology for late-pregnancy abortion – partial birth - instead of NARAL’s terminology - intact dilation and extraction. And without using "scare quotes," either!
And Hillary’s reference to abortion as a "constitutional right" is at odds with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg's dissent stating that abortion is "a right declared again and again by this court" [emphasis, The Stiletto’s] – rather than by our Founding Fathers, much less by our Creator.
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