Barbara Boxer: SCOTUS abortion decision, VTech shootings have made it a hard week for her
posted at 6:04 pm on April 18, 2007 by Bryan
Just when you think Democrats can’t get any more repulsive…
Monday afternoon it was Barack Obama comparing minimum wage jobs to Don Imus to violence to the VTech shootings (among other absurdities in his putrid speech); today it’s Barbara Boxer describing how hard it is out there for a Senator.
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) on Wednesday listed the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a ban on “partial birth abortions” along with the killing of 32 people at Virginia Tech, in describing what she called a hard and emotional week.
“I know this is a very hard and emotional week given everything that’s happened,” Boxer said at the opening of a speech on global warming in Washington, D.C. She then listed “continuing violence in Iraq … the accident that our good, dear friend Gov. Corzine is suffering from, the Virginia Tech tragedy … and today a Supreme Court decision that I believe endangers women’s health.”
There’s audio at the link. She sounds a little verklempt. But hey, it’s understandable. Making sure late-term unborn children can still be dismembered on their way out of the birth canal must steal a bit of the old joie de vivre.
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Sick. Don’t hear her weeping over the 1.3 million unborn children murdered every year in this country alone.
RightWinged on April 18, 2007 at 6:09 PM
Help me here. How does NOT performing this brutal procedure endanger someone’s health? I am asking.
CrimsonFisted on April 18, 2007 at 6:17 PM
and today a Supreme Court decision that I believe endangers women’s health.” Someone please explain this to me! Seriously, what are these people talking about?!
trader67 on April 18, 2007 at 6:19 PM
Anyone who does not find the PBA procedure horrific has absolutely no comprehension about evil.
INC on April 18, 2007 at 6:20 PM
Boxer, Pelosi, Feinstein, Villaraigosa, San Francisco, Reconquista…
Jeez I gotta move out of this wacko state.
infidel4life on April 18, 2007 at 6:23 PM
I thought Pro Choice was choosing to use proper precautions to prevent unwanted pregnancies.
DAT60A3 on April 18, 2007 at 6:25 PM
Wasn’t Boxer the one who cried when Bush won? Wasn’t she also the one who called the Madrid bombing an “accident”?
Babs, your opinions mean less than nothing.
CrimsonFisted on April 18, 2007 at 6:25 PM
Boxer can never get more repulsive because she’s constantly at the height of repulsion.
infidel4life, she’s my Senator too – but I couldn’t let others dictate my decisions, least of all such offensive things. Her day will also come. Give it a few years.
Entelechy on April 18, 2007 at 6:30 PM
If only Boxer’s mother had been pro choice.
I’m just saying!
JayHaw Phrenzie on April 18, 2007 at 6:31 PM
Umm why is every tragety always all about LIBERALS ?
Boxer is sad people are dead and shes a senator ?
Can i be just sad shes a Senator ?
William Amos on April 18, 2007 at 6:33 PM
So let me get this straight. She has no problem with stabbing (of babies), but shootings of adults is wrong?
What an amoral/immoral b!tch…
Tim Burton on April 18, 2007 at 6:40 PM
The Dems stand for genocide. Just the thought that newborns can’t be murdered at will is enough to get them backed into a corner.
Hening on April 18, 2007 at 6:40 PM
How did this procedure become legal…I’m going somewhere with this.
tomas on April 18, 2007 at 6:43 PM
Also, infidel4life, Villaraigosa’s power-trip proves to be unconstitutional (minor obstacle :)
Entelechy on April 18, 2007 at 6:45 PM
Barbara Boxer, on one hand, cries for those killed at VA Tech, and on the other hand, cries for those not being killed by partial birth abortions.
Freud would have a field day with her.
pocomoco on April 18, 2007 at 6:49 PM
I heard Barack has a new book coming out. His last one was titled “The audacity of hope.”
This new one is titled “The paucity of ideas.”
locomotivebreath1901 on April 18, 2007 at 6:50 PM
Cue the dark warnings about back alley partial-birth abortions done with a hanger, a vacuum cleaner, some tongs, a butcher knife, …
pedestrian on April 18, 2007 at 6:55 PM
Barbara Boxer Shorts should be invited to a partial birth abortion so she could see the Dr drill the hole in the baby’s head and hear the swoosh as the Dr vacuums out the baby brains.
Wade on April 18, 2007 at 6:56 PM
In response, quoting from:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070418/D8OJ7CL00.html
“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. Abortion opponents say the law will not reduce the number of abortions performed because an alternate method – dismembering the fetus in the uterus – is available and, indeed, much more common.”
And:
“The law allows the procedure to be performed when a woman’s life is in jeopardy.”
So I guess I’m confused, too. How is a woman’s life placed in jeopardy, Senator?
Dave Shay on April 18, 2007 at 6:58 PM
So Babs is upset that on the one hand a bunch of kids were killed, and on the other hand, a bunch of kids will no longer be killed…
Liberal bastards.
JackM on April 18, 2007 at 6:58 PM
When you say people, do you mean babies or students?
Tim Burton on April 18, 2007 at 6:59 PM
She then listed “continuing violence in Iraq … the accident that our good, dear friend Gov. Corzine is suffering from, the Virginia Tech tragedy … and today a Supreme Court decision that
I believe endangers women’s healthprevents us from blithely skewering infants through the base of the skull with a pair of scissors.”nico on April 18, 2007 at 7:01 PM
So PBA was part of the original Roe vs. Wade?
tomas on April 18, 2007 at 7:01 PM
Why is the SCOTUS infallible when they act outside of the Constitution (and well beyond what the American people believe) but reprehensible when they do something Barbara Boxer doesn’t like? We’re always having Roe v Wade cited as some sort of divinely inspired text, but this decision by the same body is roundly criticized.
This is the intellectual base we are dealing with: “I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion!”- Rep Maxine Waters (D-CA) at a pro-abortion rally
cmay on April 18, 2007 at 7:07 PM
I’ll play devil’s advocate here: pre-eclampsia (high blood pressure caused by pregnancy) can kill a pregnant woman. the only treatment is for the woman to give birth. If the baby is not yet viable (under 22 weeks or so) then abortion is necessary to save the mothers life. I believe that pre-eclampsia is rare that early in a pregnancy, but it happens. I am not a doctor, so if I’m wrong, feel free to correct me.
pullingmyhairout on April 18, 2007 at 7:09 PM
But i want to be very clear to everyone that I don’t advocate abortion at all, especially such a gruesome procedure as PBA.
pullingmyhairout on April 18, 2007 at 7:10 PM
Can we say “Emo Barbie”?
Catseye on April 18, 2007 at 7:10 PM
Awww. You know who had a hard week? The 33 people who were massacred at VTech. They had a bad week. You had to deal with emotional newscasts, for $165,000+ a year, plus whatever money you gave your husband through MILCON.
amerpundit on April 18, 2007 at 7:23 PM
I don’t think the American people will connect the massacre at Va Tech to the ban on partial birth abortions and will find her comment to be moronic
Defector01 on April 18, 2007 at 7:34 PM
She was. Just hard to tell which choice she made.
Wade on April 18, 2007 at 7:39 PM
She certainly is covering all of the bases.
But did not name who was commiting the violence, who was suffering from the violence or any ways to stop it, but hey her job is just to whine. Somebody else can come up with solutions leaving her free to then do some more whining.
Well not wearing a seat belt in a vehicle going 91 MPH sometimes leads to accidents and indictments.
Which is jsut furhter evidence that we need to outlaw colleges.
And what kind of healthy choice was it for the baby?
LakeRuins on April 18, 2007 at 7:43 PM
Well, I’m an ER doc, not OB/GYN, so I invite anyone to correct me also. You are correct that preeclampsia can threaten the mom’s life, and that the definitive treatment is delivery. It usually occurs after 32 weeks of gestation, but may occur earlier in women with hypertension or kidney disease. I don’t see any reason why PBA would be necessary; the fetus can be delivered and, if potentially viable, supported in the neonatal ICU.
Honestly, I cannot think of a situation where PBA would be necessary to protect the life of the mom. Again, feel free to correct me.
mikeyboss on April 18, 2007 at 7:44 PM
pullingmyhairout,
Preeclampsia is treatable. It is a life threatening issue if untreated.
Having said that, Barbara Boxer said that it would be dangerous to women’s “health.” Doe v Bolton (a companion case to Roe v Wade) requires a health exception for any abortion restriction. It then defined health very broadly; so broadly it can’t be defined and , thus, no limit has been put on abortions.
I know that you were answering Dave Shay and am not trying to attack you. But part of the Federal Ban Bill (that is upheld here) is that Congress asserted that no health exception was needed because there is no imaginable situation where it would be healthier for a woman to have this “procedure” rather than give live birth. This is actually a pretty brutal procedure for the woman, not just the baby.
At the risk of making this a run-on post, only time will tell whether this is a “victory” for the pro-life crowd, or just another illusion. Casey v Pennsylvania was supposedly a victory, but nothing changed. Anthony Kennedy’s opinion is very narrow and essentially says that the SCOTUS will not actually decide the constitutionality unless an actual case arises (instead of the facial challenge that was brought).
cmay on April 18, 2007 at 7:46 PM
Here’s a thought — the situation she doesn’t like is caused by a federal law. She’s a senator who is involved in passing (and repealing) federal law.
Hmmmmm.
Oh wait, you mean it would be terribly unpopular to repeal that law? That there’s not enough support in the House and Senate to do so? What a pity.
meep on April 18, 2007 at 7:51 PM
Banning the use of DDT sentenced millions in Africa to death and that was done without Supreme Court action but it seems Ms Boxer is only concerned with the health of pregnant American women.
Medical procedures need to be judged by the AMA not SCOTUS and meanwhile I will continue to wait on that excerpt from the Constitution that says abortion is a right. Even now I recall reading the heated exchanges between Jefferson and Franklin on this very matter. I understand Madison spent many a sleepless night pondering the question also. It must have been this lack of sleep that made them leave it out of the document entirely.
/sarc, no response required.
LakeRuins on April 18, 2007 at 7:53 PM
Bingo.
Glynn on April 18, 2007 at 8:05 PM
This woman is one of the biggest phonys that ever sat in a seat in the United States Senate! The duo of Diane and Barbara should be put in jail for the rest of their lives.
NEMETI IN SYRACUSE on April 18, 2007 at 8:05 PM
Pulling a nearly full term baby half-way out and holding it there in order to jab sharp implements up its skull while it’s still parked in the woman’s birth canal would in itself seem to put the woman’s life in more jeopardy than a simple birth would.
People who defend this horrible procedure are just barbarians in modern clothes. Actually, no real barbarian would do that to his own wife and child. That was on the level of treatment reserved for one’s enemies.
naliaka on April 18, 2007 at 8:33 PM
The Democrat’s motto: Abort another baby, pick up another vote.
pocomoco on April 18, 2007 at 9:07 PM
Good thing that the Democrats have signed up all the illegal aliens so my vote gets cancelled out, Babs is a shoe in until she resembles Robert “KKK” Byrd……
PinkyBigglesworth on April 18, 2007 at 9:10 PM
There, amerpundit. I had to fix that one. 32 people were massacred. One committed suicide.
Boxer is despicable.
Freelancer on April 18, 2007 at 9:21 PM
It was hidden and obfuscated in the Privacy Clause.
What Roe v Wade really accomplished was to make it possible for a woman and a doctor enter into covert conspiracy to commit homicide/infanticide.
franksalterego on April 18, 2007 at 9:34 PM
Freelancer, you’re right. Thanks.
amerpundit on April 18, 2007 at 9:44 PM
1 was a murdering, cowardly, sick piece of sh*t, low-life, @ss. Pardon my French.
amerpundit on April 18, 2007 at 9:45 PM
Southerners speaking Yiddish, I love it! I so can’t picture you saying this.
tikvah on April 18, 2007 at 10:10 PM
Quote from Barbara Boxer story in thread lead in above:
Yeah. It must be such an emotional drain, such an affront to one’s dignity that babies will be protected by law from being butchered while exiting mother’s womb during induced birth, as takes place in late term, D & X abortions.
Poor Barbara Boxer. I feel for you.
Quote continued:
Emotional for who, Barbara?
Dear Friend, Governor Corzine, was allegedly traveling while breaking the law, a law enforced on every Joe Schmo, and every Suzie Schmo that is not an elitist politician who is in a position to tell everyone else what to do, but who does not follow the law himself.
Governor Corzine, who has been arrogant, condescending, and part of a corrupt political Party in New Jersey, the Democrat Party, was traveling while refusing to wear his seat belt, thus making the New Jersey State Trooper who was his chauffeur an accessory to breaking the law by driving while the governor was not seat belted. The State Troopers pull common people over and issue expensive violation citations to everyone else who travels in New Jersey without wearing their seat belt. Is governor Corzine above the law?
It appears to be the case.
What about the old adage that seat belts save lives and reduce severity of injuries, Governor Corzine?
I don’t wish “You got what you deserve” on you, Governor. I merely tell you that you acted above the law, a law that you and others enforce upon us, the public, but don’t follow yourself. By not wearing your seat belt, your injuries might likely be worse than if you were seat belt.
Will you now preach to the choir, meaning, preach to the rest of us, that we should be safe and buckle up?
Best of healing and recovery to you, Governor Corzine. Also, please learn some humility and stop living like you are “Above the Law,” or are you telling us something, like “I AM above the law. I am the Governor!”
You are not above the laws of physics, gravity, force, inertia, etc. That’s for sure. None of us are above the law when it comes to natural phenomenon like those!
Barbara,
Regarding the “Continuing violence in Iraq,” perhaps if the left wing, fifth column, anti-Bush democrats were on the side of the US instead of trying at every turn to help the enemy to succeed in Iraq, perhaps things would be going better in Iraq.
Take a look in the mirror, Barbara Boxer, and check all the nasty things you have said and done to the US, the Troops, President Bush, and his cabinet members. Then tell us that you don’t contribute to the heavy burden that our troops are carrying in Iraq. Won’t you admit that you give aid and comfort to the enemy?
Quote continued:
Tragedy?
Like the same term used for the 9/11/2001 attack on US soil being called a “tragedy?”
Sorry, 9/11/01 was a vile, evil attack, a barbaric, hate filled assault on innocent men, women, and children. It was not a tragedy.
The shootings at VT was not a tragedy. It was a violent assault, murder!
A tragedy is an accidental or natural event which causes sadness, injury, or death.
A tree falling on your house and killing your dog is a tragedy. A cautious person falling off a ladder, breaking their back, and undergoing years of therapy, or even dying, is a tragedy.
Losing your house to a fire set by a lightening strike is a tragedy.
An attack by Islamic Jihadis, or an attack by a crazy student from Korea which results in the murder of innocent men, women, or children, is not a tragedy. It is a massacre, a violent attack, an outrage!
Let’s stop calling these cold blooded, hate filled, vile acts, and the resultant carnage, “Tragedies.”
It reduces the severity of the event and the resultant loss of life, as well as reduces the significance of the pain and suffering endured by those affected by these vile acts.
Labeling these barbaric, malevolent murders “Tragedy” also softens the impact that these acts have, as well as softens the act itself perpetrated by malicious, cruel, sadistic, vicious killers, making it sound almost like they “accidentally stepped on your new spring flowers. What a tragedy!”
Quote continued:
Poor Barbara Boxer!
The Supreme Court upholds the protection of innocent babies from inhumane, barbaric slaughter in a procedure that medical doctors say is never necessary to save the life of the mother, and results in the barbaric execution death of an innocent baby, and Barbara is upset!
What kind of morals and values do you have, Barbara?
You are supporting an unnecessary procedure which is not used to save a mother’s live. It involves inducing labor over the course of several days, causing the woman to give birth to her baby, then killing her baby.
How does that save a woman’s live?
It doesn’t save a woman’s live, Barbara. It destroys a living human baby.
If mother’s life were in danger, this procedure would NOT save her life. It would injure her, or even kill her.
Emergency surgery, a Cesarean section, etc., would be more in order to save her life, not inducing labor for a few days, then delivering a baby and killing that baby!
Barbara, have you taken the time to learn any Human Embryology, or anything about abortion, abortion procedures, injuries and infections resulting from abortions, emotional and psychological disorders resulting from abortion, and the long term damaging effects upon woman as a result of abortion?
Perhaps you should take the time. If you are fair minded, and, based on your behavior, I have no reason to believe that you are, if you DID spend time to learn, you might have an epiphany and actually decide to work to protect innocent babies from the abortionist’s slaughter mill, and protect women from the medical rape of abortion.
Barbara,
I hope your heart and mind “evolves” out of its darkness and into the light regarding these points you were concerned about. At this time your values and mores are deplorable!
William
William2006 on April 18, 2007 at 10:39 PM
William, yes and yes.
INC on April 18, 2007 at 11:09 PM
Maybe a story about drunk, illegal aliens killing our children will cheer her up.
oakpack on April 18, 2007 at 11:14 PM
an aside, shout out to DAT60A3 from an old 3ID DAT on a 60A3
k2comp on April 19, 2007 at 12:39 AM
Democrats: The Pary of Infanticide…..
Mallard T. Drake on April 19, 2007 at 12:43 AM
Great assessment William, especially about the misuse of the term “tragedy”. Made me think hard about that.
The report is that Corzine’s SUV was traveling at 91 MPH in a 65 MPH zone, and yet he wasn’t wearing a seat belt (and his air bag didn’t deploy).
Is there any hypocrisy in a limousine liberal, who earned several hundred million dollars on Wall Street, driving a gas guzzler, at a global warming speed, without a seat belt?
Entelechy on April 19, 2007 at 12:46 AM
Thank you, Entelechy for your encouraging comment.
I am aware of that. After I posted my previous post I realized that I intended to include that in the paragraphs about Corzine and the facts about the case, his driver, the New Jersey State Trooper putting other drivers’ lives in danger, by speeding at 91 mile per hour, breaking the law, while Governor Corzine was not safely seat belted, also breaking the law, or is it not breaking the law when law enforcement, and the Governor, chief executive of the state is doing it?
My wife and I and our children travel New Jersey highways from time to time. The speed limit signs on major highways, or expressways, do state that the speed limit is 65 miles per hour and that fines are doubled in certain areas.
No, there is not hypocrisy in left wingers, liberals, Democrats doing whatever they want, no matter what they say about conservatives and others, because, as you must know, they are good people, and, if they do something wrong, it is only because they are human and that can be understood and forgiven. After all, they are really, really good people, and they are trying so hard.
Otherwise, if you are conservative, have values and mores which differ from theirs, then you are an evil, demonic person and nothing you do is right, nothing you do is good, and if you mess up, it is unforgivable, and you should be dragged over shards of glass, hanged, and burned at the stake, just for warm up, before they continue to make your life a living hell!
William
William2006 on April 19, 2007 at 1:02 AM
INC,
Yes!
Thanks.
William
William2006 on April 19, 2007 at 1:05 AM
Fixed.
William, a bit lit up today I see. Good stuff.
Freelancer on April 19, 2007 at 3:43 AM
Damn, damn, damn that horrible monster Cho Seung-Hui! And those 5 inconsiderate men on the Supreme Court!! Can’t they think of someone besides themselves?! They ruined Sen. Boxer’s week!
OH, THE HUMANITY!!!
morganfrost on April 19, 2007 at 9:44 AM
Boxer is sick. First of all, she has no right to talk about what Virginians should do. She needs to stick to representing her ree-ree’s with the average IQ of 14. The fact that she was one of the first people to use the Va Tech tragedy to elevate her own political position, is vulgar. But what do you expect from someone who crawled out from a rock? Us Virginians are raised with class and decorum. Second, the fact that she doesn’t care that babies are killed as they’re being born, speaks volumes. Their position on gun control is not about murder. It is about controlling the population at large.
foxforce91 on April 19, 2007 at 10:11 AM
It’s certainly hypocrisy when the chief law-enforcement officer breaks the laws he’s supposed to be enforcing (especially if he signed such a bill into law himself or otherwise expressed support for the law to get votes) but there’s something worse than hypocrisy.
Someone who really does practice what he preaches, while advocating that it be forced onto the rest of us, is even more dangerous than the hypocrite, because he’s a True Believer.
The Monster on April 19, 2007 at 11:48 PM