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Today’s Republican Party wishes that our Supreme Court were as forward-looking as El Salvador’s.
El Salvador judges deny abortion to seriously ill womanWoman with kidney failure and lupus forbidden from terminating pregnancy in which foetus has no chance of survival
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/30/el-salvador-deny-abortion-seriously-ill-woman
The Supreme Court of El Salvador has ruled that a women with lupus and kidney failure may not abort a fetus with anacephaly [warning: wikipedia link, but gross images]. Anacephaly means the fetus has no brain and is almost certain to die.
So a (literally) brainless fetus has more rights than a sick woman, in El Salvador, today. I’m sure I demonstrate my unsuitability for shield law protection by noting that the core of today’s Republican Party wishes that our Supreme Court were as forward-looking as El Salvador’s.
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2013/05/30/fetus-uber-alles/