Smirk gives Ashcroft job of getting abortion offenders

[donsu]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1080459,00.html

Fury at Bush's civil rights policing of abortion ban

The Bush administration has given the US justice department's civil rights division the job of enforcing a contentious new ban on late-term abortions, it emerged yesterday.

The move has provoked furious accusations that the White House is perverting the government's role in promoting civil rights.

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The justice department, under the leadership of the conservative attorney general, John Ashcroft, has vowed to press forward with the enforcement of the law, promising in a statement released this week "to strongly defend the law prohibiting partial-birth abortions using every resource necessary".

But Mr Ashcroft's decision to use the department's civil rights division, rather than its criminal division, to enforce the measure has brought together two of the most emotionally charged issues in contemporary America: abortion and race.
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aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh

[proud patriot]

1. That's a direct violation of the Fed. court order

We have no rule of law anymore do we .

What are the courts for exactly ?

BUSH IS A TRAITOR to the Constitution .

[tom_paine]

6. The Imperial Family, their aliies and Capos, are above the Rule of Law

What, did you think Amerika was still a Free Nation?

[donotpassgo]

14. This is all part of the strategy to neuter the Federal Courts...

take them out of the process so that the White House is the sole central power in the gvt.

The majority Repub House and Senate effectively doing Bush and the White House expending a bunch of energy in equating the Federal court system with the 9th Circuit court, which they associate with hippie/liberal/gay marriage/ACLU.

I guess less government to them means less of that annoying opposition that stands in their way.

[eileen_d]

2. Good Lord, how twisted

Women's civil rights threatened by civil rights division of USDOJ.

[Beetwasher]

3. The Federal Judges Need to Send the US Marshalls To Haul

Ashcroft to prison the second he enforces this unconstitutional law...

These judges need to flex their muscle. This wouldn't be the first time he has ignored a federal judge. He routinely thumbs hsi nose at federal judges. The judges better stand up and do something.

[Grins]

7. Your damned right.

The second he does the Marshalls should haul this Nazi off in handcuffs, and the Congress should impeach him - as well as the nutcase that appointed him!

10. impeach him

seems it would be a violation of the constitution somehow for the attorney general to contravene a court order.

[Avalux]

4. Civil Rights devision???????

Ashcroft cannot supercede the court ruling, unless I have somehow awakened in a parallel universe. Apparently I have.

[lovedems]

5. It has been apparent all along where Asscroft's priorities have been

He couldn't give two shits about the terrorists. He is using his position to further his fundie outlook on life and go after "moral offenders" rather than criminals or terrorists. He is a dangerous man which is all the more reason dumbya needs to be sent back to to Texas.

[RC]

8. No, dumbya needs to be sent to

a federal lockup, like the one in Kansas.

[OldSoldier]

15. I like the one in Terre Haute better

That's where they have the federal death house.

[Mysterio]

9. where did ashcroft...

get his teachings of US law? At a school in another country? Every law person I know knows a thing or two about the US constitution. Why doesn't ashcroft?

Mysterio

[Iris]

11. This is great news.

I've said before no sane person would perform this procedure or allow this procedure to be performed on her unless there was a good reason. The doctor would be arrested after the procedure and there would have to be a trial in which the doctor, the patient, her friends, family, and medical experts could testify.

Maybe it would even air on Court TV.

Hopefully the woman will be white and middle or upper class so that the Soccer Parents could imagine themselves in this position.

[Cleita]

12. So now are they going to have FBI agents in

each operating room making sure it doesn't happen? These religious flakes have got to go.

[Iris]

13. No. Only digging through biohazardous waste

looking for remains.

[alfredo]

16. so now a doctor will have to justify a third trimester

abortion in the courts? Will he/she have to prove that the proceedure was to save the life of the woman?

[Iris]

20. No. There is no exception for the life of the mother.

He would have to prove that he did not perform the procedure, I guess.

[Selwynn]

17. Isn't their a court injunction barring the law from taking effect?

[Beetwasher]

18. Yes, but apparently Bush is going to enforce it anyway

They are ignoring the courts...

[Military Brat]

19. Santorum made the choice, and the baby died

Rick's wife was counseled to abort. She went through hell for the remainder of her pregnancy to give birth, took a major risk with her life. Of course, that was totally okay with Rick, because women are replaceable.

The baby was born, went through hell for the few hours it was alive, and then died. Mrs. Santorum has written a book, gave some money from profits to anti-abortionists, none to charities which support unwed mothers, and kept the rest.

Wow, such good Christians. It's no wonder the rest of the world looks up to us.

Ashcroft, my friends, is certifiable.

[proud patriot]

21. I can't get this off my mind

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