Burnt Orange Report on “no girls allowed”:
But the big thing, as liberal blogger extraordinaire David Sirota noted in an email to Political Wire is that while signing the most important legislation regarding a woman’s right to choose in more than 3 decades not a single woman was present at the signing. 7 old white guys standing around deciding that saving women’s lives is not as important as pandering to the hard right. Most Dialation and Extraction abortions, which is the true name for the procedure they may or may not be describing as the legislation is very vague, are performed only in medical emergencies which is why they account for less than 1/10 of 1% of all abortions performed in the US. There is no provision to allow for “Partial Birth Abortions” even when the mother’s life is at stake.
Imagine if they did this for some other procedure, one that dealt with men. Let’s say they banned removing a man’s testicles when he has Testicular Cancer because the Old Testament says that men with crushed or absent testicles are unclean. As soon as one man was told by his doctor that he would die because the Federal Government had outlawed a rather simple procedure that would save his life because the religious beliefs of some members of Congress made them oppose removing his testicles, there would be riots. No more Lance Armstrong, no more Tom Green (I know that that might seem like a legitimate argument for this cause, but hold yourselves back please).