Congratulations Emily Cook. I believe you are the first person to know all there is to know about a medical procedure while not being a doctor.

I revel in your obvious knowledge of this procedure and your well-thought-out value judgement on whether or not all doctors’ opinions should be considered. It’s quite obvious that the many doctors who state that partial-birth abortions do benefit mothers were not called by Congress for an obvious reason — they, despite being trusted to tend to the general public, are obviously ideological nuts with an ax to grind against unborn children.

In fact, I’m sure every obstetrician who supports partial-birth abortion is really in the field just for the chance to perform abortions on helpless fetuses.

And really, even if partial-birth abortions do help the mother, as these nutso docs would have us believe, why should we help these mothers? Obviously they don’t care about their child or else they wouldn’t do it. Any real mother would gladly die rather than have a life-saving abortion. Certainly a mother wouldn’t consider abortion to save herself from irreparable physical damage. The fact that these judges — and their idiotic addiction to valuing and upholding the Constitution and the rights of everyone — require this clause really shows how screwed up we are.

Instead of valuing fetuses that might die before even being born, these activist judges put the woman’s body first. How did we go so wrong?

So I applaud you, Ms. Cook. Your amazing knowledge of the procedure and thorough understanding of the neglectful action that judges take in valuing a mother over an unborn child has enlightened all of us.

Blair Polhamus

Junior

Women’s Studies