Bush Appointed Supreme Court Backs Bushs Abortion Ban

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Americans are now waking up to the results of allowing their right-winged president to appoint his right-winged choices for the Supreme as the latest 5-4 ruling uphold's Bush's law imposing a ban on late term abortions. The majority was led (and ensured) by Bush's latest Supreme Court appointees Roberts and Alito.

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Today Americans suffered a major step backwards in women's civil rights: The US Supreme court upheld a law put forward by Bush to ban a type of abortion - late term abortion. This is the first time any abortion-right-limiting decision has come down from the supreme court since the landmark case of Roe v. Wade which granted American women the right to choose if they wanted abortion or not.

This is the first major case handled by the Supreme court since Bush appointed two well known extreme-right-wing-conservative judges to the Court. The two new appointees, Roberts and Alito, both voted with Bush's ban, which along with the other conservative judges were able to force a 5-4 majority on the court.

There was a strong dissent statement read by the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the only women currently sitting on the Supreme Court. In speaking out against the 5-4 decision, Ginsburg said that the conservative majority "tolerates, indeed applauds, federal intervention to ban nationwide a procedure found necessary and proper in certain cases". She argued that this decision was merely a first step to the conservative led court re-examining Roe. v. Wade, the very basis of abortions rights in the US.

Bush's law was created to ban a type of late-term abortion called by doctors as "intact dilation and evacuation". This is a rare but still used type of abortion, usually used for medical complications which may arise during pregnancy. Bush pushed his law into effect in 2003 through a Republican led congress, but the law had been challenged, appealed and overturned by 3 lower courts before the Bush-packed Supreme Court decided to back it.

Is this merely a single case of the new conservative supreme court looking a specific single case, or is it more likely the first of many extreme-right-wing policies which will be pulled over the US population and its civil laws? Time will tell.