Will Sandra Day O’Connor’s resignation from the Supreme Court set women back?
Since Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court has reviewed many cases on women’s reproductive health according to the NARAL website. Every year the margins become narrower. Any choice Bush finds acceptable is also likely, given the opportunity, to further erode women’s health and reproductive rights. And although it is unlikely that Roe v. Wade will be unilaterally overturned in the near future, conservatives have been doing a great job shrinking the scope of Roe v. Wade ever since Bush took office. We’ve already witnessed the 2003 ban on what conservative spin-marketers term “partial birth” abortion. But don’t believe the hype. This is a ban on a medical procedure that can be performed as early as the second trimester, when a so-called “birth” is clinically questionable. This ban also narrows a doctor’s choice on what procedure is the safest for a patient, placing an undue burden on women’s health. While “pro-life” advocates fight to get fetuses the same human rights as grown women, they sim
