Partial Progress

Well Louisiana is no loser.

On Friday it became the first state to out-law crushing the skull of partially birthed babies.

Now before anyone thinks that this is an extreme law, consider that the new law allows partial-birth abortions when failure to perform it would endanger the mother's life.

The only argument I've ever heard in support of partial-birth abortion is that it needs to be legal in order to keep women alive.

All proposals to make partial-birth abortion illegal have included the exception of the life of the mother as a permissible circumstance.

According to the Associated Press article on Foxnews.com...

Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco signed into law criminal penalties for doctors who perform the surgery: fines of between $1,000 and $10,000, and jail terms of between one and 10 years.

Some people may be thinking, "Didn't the prez sign into law a ban on partial-birth abortion?"

Well, he did. But it's held up in the Supreme Court.

Apparently the United States Supreme

Court isn't sure if having your brains sucked out should be illegal or not.

Wow, I'm being graphic. Not my style.

But seriously, the babies are not going to talk for themselves.

The really objective news media summarizes that, "Nationwide, there are just a few thousand such abortions, according to rough estimates, out of more than 1.25 million abortions in the United States annually."

Just a few thousand? What is wrong with us? Why can't we, the great United States, have a higher standard for how we treat the most delicate among us?