In 1973, the US Supreme Court overturned the laws of every state and introduced an absolute right to abortion on demand up to and including partial birth.
Today, the European Court of Human Rights stands poised to overturn the law of every state and introduce an absolute right to abortion on demand up to and including partial birth. Well, not quite every state. The one that had Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister therefore already has this arrangement.
And woe betide any mere parliamentarian who ever attempted to change it. Like any United State of America, we now have our own Supreme Court, and it does what it says on the tin. It is Supreme. Whatever it says is the law, is the law. Mere statutes are neither here nor there to it. And like the Supreme Court of any United State of America, it defers absolutely to the Supreme Supreme Court, of which, as if one were not bad enough, there are two, the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights.
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I didn't know that. But I'm pretty pleased to hear it, on balance (though I disapprove of partial birth abortions). Thanks for sharing the good news more widely.
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ReplyDeleteThe end of the EU?
ReplyDeleteToo high a price to pay.
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