Today, in a momentous 5-4 decision that moves us all towards a more civilized society, the U.S. Supreme Court rightly upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act. The decision, the majority opinion for which was delivered by Justice Anthony Kennedy, does not restrict whether a woman may have an abortion. It merely eliminates one barbaric form of abortion from the palette of legal options available to kill pre-born human beings. Nevertheless, this decision is a move towards a more civilized society.
Regardless your position on whether abortion should be legal, it is unreasonable for a civilized society to permit, let alone support, what the Supreme Court concludes in its decision to be a gruesome, cruel and unusual, and wholly unnecessary partial birth abortion procedure. Read the description of the procedure contained within the decision for yourself and one has to seriously question the moral compass, intellectual capacity, and critical thinking skills of those who would do so. Also ask yourself whether such a procedure is illustrative of a truly civilized society.
Given the plethora of education and information regarding human reproduction (formerly known as ’sex education’) and the myriad of birth-control methods made readily available by organizations such as Planned Parenthood, shouldn’t the number of unwanted pregnancies in our ”civilized society” be approaching zero anyway? I’ll propose some intellecutal calesthenics surrounding that topic at a later time.
