A Difficult Compromise

Supreme Court to Consider Law Banning 'Late-Term' Abortions [Excerpts]

The Supreme Court, stocked with two new conservative justices, agreed today to consider the constitutionality of the federal law banning "late-term" abortions.

The "partial-birth abortion" ban, enacted in 2003, has been invalidated by three different federal appeals courts on the grounds that the ban did not include an exception for cases when the health of the mother might be at stake and constituted an undue burden on the right to abortion.

"Every court that has examined the federal abortion ban has struck it down because, among other things, the ban does not protect women's health," read a statement from Planned Parenthood of America, a participant in the case.

"Just six years ago, the Supreme Court itself struck down an abortion ban passed by the state of Nebraska because it did not have a health exception...

Source: Supreme Court...By Fred Barbash The Washington Post | Published: Feb 21, 2006

A Difficult Compromise

I would say outright that God is sovereign in all things, indeed, very much so particularly in regards to human life.

For any man to decide who and when to die is very wrong in His eyes. So I say that this courts are passing judgement on something that only God has the authority.

Men of authority, although derived secularly, has to settle for a compromise, which is not pleasing to God.