With Victory come Losses

I was going to write a post about how pleased I was that Congress was able to overturn Bush's veto on stem cell research, then I read this:

"WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's new conservative majority gave anti-abortion forces a landmark victory Wednesday in a 5-4 decision that bans a controversial abortion procedure nationwide and sets the stage for further restrictions."

I agree with Ginsburg on this:
"In dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the ruling "cannot be understood as anything other than an effort to chip away at a right declared again and again by this court."

I'm not a woman. And it could be said that I really don't know what I'm talking about because of that simple fact, but let's be clear here: A law that isn't explicit will be ignored or abused. The terminology of "partial birth abortion" is not a medical term. So denying the ability for doctor's to use this "method" opens the door for misinterpretation of what this term means. In many cases, abortions considered "legal" by the framers of this bill could potentially be denied because of an opinion. I'm not pro-abortion, though I know many people who've been affected by one, myself included. And all I can say is that it's something that really shouldn't be dealt with on the floors of Congress. If a team of medical doctors were to approach the government with a policy declaring what was considered a safe procedure and setup a ban for unsafe procedures that were found in the medical community to cause more harm than good, I would be in full support. However, this bill is nothing more than as Ginsburg said an effort to chip away at rights that the court has maintained and upheld for years. Why is this right an issue? Well look at Roe v. Wade. Look at the effects of illegal abortions around the world. Think about the fact that reproductive rights is something that women and men should be able to discuss in the confines of their own environment. It's just such an issue that has many possibilities and pitfalls that an across the board ban will cause problems. Women without choices will have an abortion. If done without proper medical care, they could potentially die because of it. Perhaps from the perspective that everyone that doesn't love G.W. is a sinner, this isn't a big deal. But for the rest of us that live in reality and don't believe religious dogma should dictate policy, this is a bad bad thing.

Update: this is the photo of the bill being signed. Notice, not a single woman standing behind the President(and yes we do have women in Congress) and look at the creeps that are: