Posted on 12/21/2015 9:15:12 AM PST by John Semmens
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding an Arizona law banning abortions performed because of the sex or race of the baby was assailed by spokesmen for the law's opponents as "a backward step toward slavery and oppression."
NCAAP spokesperson Shakeel Infante maintained that "forcing an African-American woman to bear a baby she doesn't want negates the promise of freedom we are striving to implement in this country. Motherhood has burdens. Forcing those burdens on an unwilling woman is slavery, pure and simple."
ACLU spokesperson Alexa Kolbi-Molinas agreed and added that "not only does this ruling enslave Black women, it oppresses all women. A key reason for aborting a fetus based on its sex is the knowledge that females face a lifetime of discrimination in our society. A woman's efforts to spare her child from that fate should not be callously discarded out of a perverted dedication to unrealistic ideals."
The successful litigant—Alliance Defending Freedom—hailed the ruling. ADF legal counsel Steve Aden said he was "glad to see that even a notoriously liberal 9th circuit court recognized that killing a child because of its sex or race is an indefensible grounds for an abortion. It's a small, but perhaps significant step toward a more humane treatment of the most vulnerable humans."
The NAACP and ACLU have vowed to appeal the verdict to the US Supreme Court. "I can't believe that this will stand," Kolbi-Molinas said. "Roe v. Wade established the right of every woman to obtain an abortion at any time for any reason. That is the law of the land. The 9th Circuit was out-of-bounds in deviating from that standard."
In related news, a federal judge in Ohio blocked the state from taking action against an abortion clinic for illegally dumping fetuses in a local landfill on the grounds that "this enforcement action is politically motivated. Other businesses are not blocked from disposing of non-hazardous waste in landfills. For Planned Parenthood to be singled out is discriminatory and illegal."
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://azconservative.org/2015/12/19/sanders-campaign-breach-called-most-serious-threat-ever/
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