SCOTUS Abortion ruling leaves ill women in quandary

Women who want a controversial abortion procedure for health reasons have few options beyond going to court and trying to prove that a Supreme Court decision banning the practice should not apply.

For women facing serious health risks, that may not be practical.

With NO exception for health in the ban means patients must litigate for procedure.

A medical decision must be "litigated".

Never since Roe has a lack of women's health exception been deemed constitutional. We are fast becoming a fetal utopia, where fetal rights trump women's rights. All backed by Bu$h's stacked anti court. Louise Melling, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s reproductive freedom project reiterates this, saying the decision is “the first time ever the court has upheld a restriction where there isn’t an exception to protect a woman’s health.”

“The problem with that is it’s not going to be an easy thing for women to invoke,” said Vikram Amar, a professor at the University of California’s Hastings School of Law. “Because time is of the essence, and litigation takes money and time, the ‘as applied’ route is not as practically feasible.”

Of the 1.3 million abortions performed in 2000, the most recent data available, 2,200 involved this procedure, according the Guttmacher Institute.

Why is it acceptable that 2,200 women must litigate their right to terminate a pregnancy because their life is in danger? We may begin to see some maternal deaths because the courts took their time deciding these women's fates. This court is more concerned with the non-living than the living and it apparent that any more abortion cases will be decided as such.

Roger Evans, senior director of public policy litigation and law at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said the ruling “appears to be saying” that if a woman needed an abortion for medical reasons and the banned procedure was the safest method, she would have two choices.

She could use a riskier procedure because the safest method is a federal crime. She also could sue, arguing it would be unconstitutional to impose the riskier method.

So...the riskier method is constitutional. Again, no regard for women's health or lives. As long as the Supreme Feti is ok, who cares about the mother?

Next, they will be attacking the riskier method and women will be left with nothing. Except death.