US Supreme Court rejects Okla. Personhood appeal

[yesphan]

Source: Bloomberg

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that said a proposal to grant "personhood" to human embryos would be an improper ban on abortion.

Read more: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-10-30/us-supreme-court-rejects-okla-dot-personhood-appeal

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Believe me. This isn't over.

[truebrit71]

1. That's great news...

I wonder, do they think there's a better case in the pipeline??

[AlbertCat]

2. I love this line....

.... from those who vow to "fight on"... until:

"our women and children are protected from abortion."

Protected? Like abortion is coming to get you? Like women are being forced into abortions?

I just don't get it. It's this attitude that Pro-choice people are ENCOURAGING women to get abortions! I remember an article in The Onion that made fun of this attitude. "Woman Psyched About her Abortion!" "I can't wait to run down there and get my abortion during my lunch break!" Anti-choice people are just nuts and don't seem to understand what they are going on about.

[caseymoz]

4. Because they think of it as good vs. evil.

If it looks voluntary, it means somewhere, some pro-choicer, perhaps even Satan himself, is manipulating women into wanting abortions they don't really need, through some secret mass media campaign.

The absurdity of it, finding evil where there is none, is shown by some of the arguments they make. One will say, "It's genocide against African Americans," while another will say, "It's genocide against the White Race." (I prefer the former). Fact is, there's not a scrap of evidence that supports either one.

[savalez]

8. That reminds me of something I once read.

"If you look hard enough you will find it, even if it's not there."

[caseymoz]

13. Yes, and they look hard because

They're specifically looking for a way to confirm what they already believe. Like most people, they don't look to disprove what they believe, they look to prove it.

That's why you should always be skeptical, if you can. Believing is easy. Back-pedaling is a bitch.

[Volaris]

18. That's why you should always be skeptical, if you can. Believing is easy. Back-pedaling is a bitch.

can I stick this in the "internet Quotes" folder on my hard drive? PLEASE?

[caseymoz]

19. Yes, go ahead nt

[caseymoz]

3. What do you mean?

Like there's another place to appeal after the SCOTUS? It seems there are limits to what even our conservative SCOTUS will do.

Don't relax, but take a little comfort. I begin to hope that the anti-choice movement has met its high-water mark. From here, I expect violent insurgency, but few, if any political victories.

[uwep]

5. Great article on CNN.com on abortion

I have rarely seen an article that truly talks sanely about abortion. I recommend
this article. I believe it makes fools out of the "pro-life, right to life" American
"Christians". Follow this link:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/29/opinion/frum-abortion-reality/index.html?fb_action_ids=3823987839951&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582

[caseymoz]

15. How right this article is!

Anti-choice is about depriving people of resources and demanding that they do what you want anyway.

[JDPriestly]

6. Actually, if Oklahoma can declare a fetus to be a human being in terms of rights

protected by the Constitution, why can't other states declare that corporations are NOT human beings and have no rights protected under the Constitution?

[caseymoz]

14. And that's likely why conservative justices wouldn't support it.

Perceptive.

[onehandle]

7. President Paul Ryan will push it through when a fundie kills President Mitt Romney.

Luckily for Mittens, he will not win next week.

[snooper2]

9. LOL, that's got to smack the repukes in the face, an embryo isn't a person

but a corporation is

[yesphan]

11. We're not even talking embryo here,

not even a blastocyst, but a diploid zygote.

[caseymoz]

16. True.

They insist on personhood at conception thinking that it's less arbitrary that what us so-called relativists want: infanticide.

[ROBROX]

10. THESE PEOPLE WANT TO GIVE A NON HUMAN CIVIL RIGHTS!!!

This is so BIZARRE it should be on TV. I think those morons have nothing to do but make sure companies and anything living can be given the right to vote so the GOP can find more votes!!!

I am so glad less than 35% of my state is filled with these kinds of nuts. They all live away from the coast in the big valley where it is hot and dry like hell which is where those people will go to when there time is right.

[BigDemVoter]

12. My apologies in advance to any progressive Oklahomans out there. . . .

But those stupid, shit-head RW voters in OK--remember the amendment to ban sharia law in OK? They OBVIOUSLY don't understand the constitution--SEPARATION of church & state, EVEN if, God forbid! . . . We were suddenly attacked and forced to submit--gasp! to Sharia Law!

[Wednesdays]

17. No offense taken here

But if you think the Sharia Law thing was bad, get a load of what's coming down the pike THIS year! (Google "Oklahoma" and "state questions" and "2012".)