After a 30+ year reign of deadly judicial fiats...a line.

In 1973 I was told Roe was just for the 1st trimester, then Bolton made it anytime for 'health' reasons defining health in the broadest (any reason) terms. Then Roe and Wade both became pro-life but no change in the law.

Then partial birth of sometimes viable children, then "treatment not to treat" newborns and a Presidential candidate flirting with infanticide. (Aside on viability: Weren't snowflake children, now viable children who were once frozen human embryos, adopted and brought to term, viable when they were frozen and living outside the mother's womb or does IVF only implant dead human embryos(?)...I'm confused a bit about viability. Not! They are viable and we are all confused as science brings for new understandings of viability.)

Finally a ban on partial birth abortion passes with a huge majority of both Houses supporting the ban and it gets a Presidential veto not just once from the champion of values, Bill Clinton. Ah but then George W. Bush gets it and signs it.

And activist, unaccountable justices challenge it for almost the full duration of W's administration. Finally the Supreme's hear it and apparently Scalia's low emotional EQ didn't frost the border-line Supremes and Kennedy flipped positions (frankly so should Souter!), and perhaps but not necessarily, compliments of Justice Robert's skill, reasoning, and higher emotional EQ than the otherwise brilliant Scalia.

And (drum roll please) the US Supreme Court rightly upholds the ban on partial birth abortion. One facebook group (and a pro-life one if you can believe it!) said if anyone was excited about this from either side that they were likely extremists! Well call me an extremist then. After over 30 years praying, working, lobbying, voting, informing, teaching, and praying some more, FINALLY a line has been drawn somewhere in the sand. Hopefully sand mixed with water and concrete.

Thank you George W. Bush, Congress, voters from both political parties who opposed partial birth abortion and United States Supreme Court. Thank you very much! I am excited. Yes. Thank you Jesus! Frankly I hope many will join me in being grateful. But keep on being discerning and engaged because the culture of death is not going to be happy until we are distributing abortion-causing, after-conception pills that were only politically nuanced through the FDA in the last couple years, performing tax-funded mass human embryo cloning, and allowing for hard-case, second-glance infanticide and such.

I expect to hear every hard case imaginable, real and mostly hypothetical soon. I'm sure we are going to hear from powerful personalities that promised to move to Canada if W was elected, that saving developed human children from being partially-birthed and the scissors inserted to the back of the head, brain sucking, skull breaking treatment is very bad and nearly the end of the world. But they are wrong.

The Supreme Court, majorities in both Houses, and President George W. Bush and the voters who elected him were right. I must confess that I do wonder what Hillary, Rudy, McCain, and Obama really think about this today.

I'm hoping if they are "personally opposed" (you know, like one might give favor to ones preference of a certain ice cream flavor) that they won't be wanting to push their privately held and frankly deadly views... But enough on the culture of death and their hereto unstoppable 30+ year reign of judicial fiats. This day is a really very wonderful day!