Not the gruesome pictures, not the uncompromising self-righteousness, not the vast effort to pass a bill that the country just doesn't need. The appalling thing is that none of the proponents of the bill, in ANY of the debate that I heard or read, explained why or even dealt with the fact that this bill would make it illegal for a woman to have a medical procedure that would save her life. That is the crux of this bill and the compromise that, whatever you might think about the result, would probably get the President's signature and become law. By refusing that compromise, the radical right is saying that they are willing and eager to sign the death warrant of a few hundred or a few thousand women each year from now on. As I said earlier, nobody chooses this procedure willingly.
Nobody endures it except in extreme circumstances.
It is unfortunate and a tragedy all around when it must be used, and it is only used when the alternative is a greater tragedy. In other words, there is nothing broken that this law would fix. And for that, they are willing to have women die. For this week, that's the view from the Outpost. For WMBR, this is Dan Murphy.