Why is "Partial Birth Abortion" Vote Right?

[srpantalonas]

It clearly isn't right. The Republican Senate is effectively saying that medical science is no longer the measure for critical medical procedures, and that doctors cannot be trusted to make the right call about women's health. Legislators, they presume, are clearly superior to doctors in determining which procedures can be used and which can't. They base their arguments on "morality", selectively applying their own interpretation of morality and imposing it on all of us. In the meantime, criminalizing the procedure ban endangers the health of pregnant women experiencing complications.

The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists opposes this criminalization because "the intervention of legislative bodies into medical decision-making is inappropriate, ill advised and dangerous."

Roe v. Wade is based on the privacy argument; I would apply separation of church and state to this one. Their selective morality is derived from their belief in God, and they presume certain things like abortion is a sin, homosexuality is a sin, premarital sex is a sin, etc based on their interpretation of God's will. I don't necessarily subscribe to their interpretation of God's will, and I bet they wouldn't subscribe to mine. They wouldn't want my belief-informed morality applied to their personal lives, nor should it be. Mixing their interpretation of morality with legislation is clearly a violation of church and state.

Your thoughts?