[mdittmar]

Our tax dollars at work.

[steve50]

A fetus without a brain. Such a waste, it would have gone far in American politics

[Always Right]

Hard to argue in this case. The baby has no hope and can only endanger the mother.

[wita]

This would almost be a no-brainer if her husband was still in the military. What makes her think she had no choice when the "operation" was originally performed. Soooooo we follow the money, and find that "choice" wasn't reeeaally what she wanted was it. Of course I can understand her mindset vis-a-vis the "full" medical coverage in the military, if that truly is her mindset.

[11th Earl of Mar]

Our tax dollars at work.

You won't get very far arguing that the government is wasting money in this case.

An abortion is much cheaper than is the alternative, which is several days in intensive care before death.

[anniegetyourgun]

Today it only applies in this case.....tomorrow.....

[libertylover]

Just how smart does a baby have to be before it's allowed to live?

[ikka]

Who appointed the judge? I have a guess.

[verity]

Be brutally honest! It is not the money, right?

[Cicero]

It's a very dangerous precedent. We all know how the culture of death works. First the "hard cases," such as rape and the health of the mother, and then before you know it 40,000,000 babies have been slaughtered.

How much did this abortion cost? A few hundred dollars? How much money did this women spend on legal fees to seek government reimbursement?

Did Planned Parenthood and NARAL perhaps help her with the legal fees? Did a pro-abort lawyer work "pro bono"?

I'm sure there is much more behind this case than what is written in this article.

[Paul Atreides]

"I'm happy. I'm just hoping that it will stick," said Britell, a former Massachusetts resident who now heads Voters for Choice in Washington, D.C.

What a completely moral-deficient.

[self_evident]

Do you think we should deny military personel coverage for smoking related illness?

If the military is going to be the battleground for social change, then it could happen. Or any of the other pet causes of the left.

I think we should let the military personel alone and seek social change at other venues.

[Siobhan]

L?4?udgment that needs to be overturned. This progress down the road of human life valuation is precisely what went before the rise of National Socialism in Germany before the Second World War and achieved its end in the death camps of the Holocaust. We keep repeating Germany's mistakes over and over again, and Nazi logic is used by American leftists on everything from therapeutic cloning to this. After we are done embracing this way of thinking, we too will sit in ruins on the dustheap of nation states.

[dighton]

... anencephaly, a condition in which the baby has no brain and survives for only a few days.

I'm not sure how a baby could survive *at all* with no brain. However,

anencephaly : congenital absence of all or a major part of the brain -- Webster's III.

[concerned about politics]

U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Gertner ruled Thursday that the government could not refuse to pay for the abortion on moral grounds.

I thought morality didn't matter in abortion cases. This opens a whole new door.
Is mass murder of the pre-born moral? What is the definition of moral? It certainly isn't tearing a human life from the womb now is it?
Morality has now set a legal president in a court of law. Is it moral for a woman to kill a mans unborn child? It's half his. Is it moral to steel that life from another?

[concerned about politics]

The government has no place getting involved in abortion funding. Period. Next thing you know, we'll be killing all those without the gene for blond hair and blue eyes. Sound familiar?

[jimkress]

Anencephalic babies are NOT doomed to death. Here is an example:

Faith Aminah Shabazz - Faith was diagnosed with anencephaly while still in the womb. Her mother, Margo, chose to carry her to term. Faith was born in March of 2001. Faith is still alive today.

There are more at this link.

Just because a child's life is inconvenient for the parents (or society) or shorter than the parents (or society) would like, is no reason (or excuse) to murder an innocent child. According to the "logic" used by this judge (and his supporters) we should kill anyone who can be shown to have a "projected life span" of only a few days. That is evil.

[Cindy]

LIFE

[Salvation]

This is so sad. Maybe they need to hear from us.

[jude24]

this sounds like a "health of the mother" thing.

the fetus is dead (no brain), and it cant be healthy to have that growing inside a woman.

I'm as pro-life as any, but save your battles for the real problems. This isnt it.

[screed]

And the door creeks open just a little bit more.