They perpetuate it and live for this kind of moment as much as the gun control lobbies. Saying "they started it" is rather juvenile. One side claims that the ease of purchasing a handgun is to blame and the other claims that an armed student body would have prevented it. I honestly don't think it matters who instigated anything. They both feed off of tragedy and that is disconcerting.
Guess it would be better if the pro-choice crowd just shut up when the pro-life crowd started pushing anti-abortion laws, huh? Hold the higher moral ground and all?
Think that would work?
Well, at least WE won a victory today:
The Supreme Court's conservative majority handed anti-abortion forces a major victory Wednesday in a decision that bans a controversial abortion procedure and set the stage for further restrictions. For the first time since the court established a woman's right to an abortion in 1973, the justices upheld a nationwide ban on partial-birth abortion.
The 5-4 decision written by Justice Anthony Kennedy said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman's constitutional right to an abortion.
The law is constitutional despite not containing an exception that would allow the procedure if needed to preserve a woman's health, Kennedy said. "The law need not give abortion doctors unfettered choice in the course of their medical practice," he wrote in the majority opinion.
Doctors who violate the law face up to two years in federal prison.
Kennedy's opinion, joined by Bush's two appointees, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, was a long-awaited resounding win that abortion opponents expected from the more conservative bench.
The administration defended the law as drawing a bright line between abortion and infanticide.
More than 1 million abortions are performed in the United States each year, according to recent statistics. Nearly 90 percent of those occur in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, and are not affected by Wednesday's ruling. The Guttmacher Institute says 2,200 dilation and extraction procedures—the medical term most often used by doctors—were performed in 2000, the latest figures available.
The law bans a method of ending a pregnancy, rather than limiting when an abortion can be performed.
The procedure at issue involves partially removing the fetus intact from a woman's uterus, then crushing or cutting its skull to complete the abortion.