Posted on 06/07/2005 4:31:28 PM PDT by CHARLITE
What happens when a court constitutionalizes infanticide? We ask the question because a federal appeals court in Virginia appears to have done just that. In a contentious 2-1 decision last week that places Virginia in the hot seat of the abortion debate, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond threw out Virginia's partial-birth abortion ban, sanctioning the actions of an abortionist plaintiff who crushes the heads and dismembers the arms and legs of infants as they emerge from the womb.
The law the court struck down was similar to the partial-birth abortion ban Congress passed in 2003 and was one of the most reasonable attempts by a state legislature anywhere to end this barbaric procedure. But the court blocked it, thus giving its approval to a practice a large majority of Americans rightly regard as murder.
The "infanticide" claim doesn't originate with us; it comes from Judge Paul V. Niemeyer, one of the three justices who sits on the court. In his 27-page dissent, Judge Neimeyer calls the ruling "a bold, new law that, in essence, constitutionalizes infanticide of a most gruesome nature."
In some uncommonly harsh words for his colleagues, Judge Niemeyer called the ruling "unfit for the laws of a people of liberty" and said it "unnecessarily distances our jurisprudence from that of the Supreme Court and from general norms of morality."
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
Obviously someone that knows his history. Hitler believed children could be eliminated up to the age at which they could feed themselves.
This is the second article in a row that I have been able to praise a judge...Bless you Judge Niemeyer---
Too bad your fellow judges don't see it your way.
I think there should be made a law, that any judge or jury that would vote IN FAVOR of a partial-birth abortion, should have to witness one in person, first!!!
Every man a philologist, you know.; every judge a creative deconstructivist genius.
Impeachment and conviction is what should happen. What will happen is nothing.
Niemeyer . . . sounds like a good pick for Supreme Court Justice.
Just you wait. Eventually, the Liberal generation of that grew up in the 60s and 70s will pass out of power, and those who grew up under Reagan and both Bushes will take their place.
That's when we'll move back to a better America (hopefully).
At least there are SOME judges who interpret the law, and not make it.
Who--weeee don't you know the dems would go ballistic if this judge was nominated!!!
They will not openly admit a litmus test, but there is--anyone who isn't a fan of abortion, need not apply!!!
"Hitler believed children could be eliminated up to the age at which they could feed themselves."
And noted Princeton "ethicist" Peter Singer agrees with him, in principle if not in detail.
How on earth can anyone find LIFE so expendable. The culture of death and hate is in control of the earth.
"The culture of death and hate is in control of the earth."
We live in a fallen world, what you say is true. But we are battling it every day.
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