Supreme Court Ruling Brings Split in Antiabortion Movement / WaPo

[Demeter]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/03/AR2007060301218.html?referrer=email

Supreme Court Ruling Brings Split in Antiabortion Movement

By Alan Cooperman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 4, 2007; A03


Dobson and many other antiabortion leaders hailed the 5 to 4 ruling as a victory; abortion-rights organizations saw it as a defeat. But six weeks later, its consequences have been, in part, the reverse....

Among antiabortion activists, meanwhile, the decision in Gonzales v. Carhart has reopened an old split between incrementalists who support piecemeal restrictions and purists who seek a wholesale prohibition on abortions.

In an open letter to Dobson that was published as a full-page ad May 23 in the Colorado Springs Gazette, Focus on the Family's hometown newspaper, and May 30 in the Washington Times, the heads of five small but vocal groups called the Carhart decision "wicked," and accused Dobson of misleading Christians by applauding it. Carhart is even "more wicked than Roe" because it is "not a ban, but a partial-birth abortion manual" that affirms the legality of late-term abortions "as long as you follow its guidelines," the ads said. "Yet, for many years you have misled the Body of Christ about the ban, and now about the ruling itself.".....

Brian Rohrbough, president of Colorado Right to Life and a signer of the ads, disagreed. "All you have to do is read the ruling, and you will find that this will never save a single child, because even though the justices say this one technique is mostly banned -- not completely banned -- there are lots of other techniques, and they even encourage abortionists to find less shocking means to kill late-term babies," he said.

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[kimmylavin]

1. Language

When did they start using "antiabortion"? Its just as silly as "pro-life".
To suggest that one side is "antiabortion" is to suggest that the other is "pro abortion".
Hardly the case.

Regardless, this article IS interesting.
Shows how deeply people care about controlling other people's lives, and its pretty interesting to see the fundies turn on their own, accusing them of not doing enough!
If these folks haven't figured out that their faith is nothing more to those in power than a tool to be manipulated, I don't think they have anything else to bring to the table...

[tanyev]

2. Wow. They're starting to figure out they're being played.

"What happened in the abortion world is that groups like National Right to Life, they're really a wing of the Republican Party, and they're not geared to push for personhood for an unborn child -- they're geared to getting Republicans elected," he said. "So we're seeing these ridiculous laws like the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban put forward, and then we're deceived about what they really do."

[Demeter]

3. When the Would-Be Enslavers Start to Realize Just What They Are Doing

to the women in their lives, this movement will collapse of its own contradictions. Until then, I'd rather they slugged each other that any of my sisters.