This asshole has got some nerve. That's all there is to say. To the polls my friends to the polls!! I now come out with my official endorsement for president. Barack Obama.

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that Vitter's amendment couldn't have passed without the votes of the following Democratic senators: Evan Bayh of Indiana, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, Robert Casey of Pennsylvania, Tim Johnson of South Dakota, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Harry Reid of Nevada, and Ken Salazar of Colorado.



For the record, GOP senators Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe and Arlen Specter voted in opposition.

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consistent about not forcing people to do what they think is right i would call Vitter out. but all i have to do is go back a couple pages to read about democrats/liberals wanting to force by way of government universal health care.

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This is pointless. As stated in the article, the Louisiana senator needs to find something else to do like helping out his Katrina-torn state. There are countless issues there that could use his service. On second thought maybe not this guy seems like a first grade idiot.

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There is a quiet under-current these days signalling a kind of recurrence of Eugenics and 19th century Spencerism barely under the surface; it's important to remember that the decisions best left to each autonomous individual and citizen are slowly drifting towards decisions made for them by State and other powers. It's best not to neglect or minimize this seemingly absurd and non-sensical move by those in the Legislative and other branches of the State -- which now is a full fledged and irreversible Corporate-State. Advances in such things as Biology, Psychology, Sociology (!) etc and their relation to Law and Liberty are not simple by any means. I hope this article sets some younger and more vigorous minds than my own to pondering these questions in their larger context! When Social Policies, Religion, Science and Business and Legislation meet it would be only prudent to think carefully about such things as this article points to.

Putting in place a pre-emptive block of due process to generations not yet born is nothing to take too lightly! And it speaks to a mind-boggling Hubris besides: determining social, political and economic relations in the absence
of those affected!! It adds a post-modern twist and dimension to the concept of Tyranny indeed!

I can just hope there are those in the more youthful demographic are out there that take such concepts (which are developing!) as justice, equality, liberty, dignity and, yes, humanity very deadly seriously.

By what right do these human beings determine the rights of grand-children, great-grand children not yet here? The US Constitution provides EACH generation with the tools to decide their OWN destiny in their OWN time. Last I heard, the Legislature consisted of elected representatives and not of representatives selected and appointed by a deity- in Louisiana too! At this pace, perhaps we won't have an election in 2008 -- we'll have a King or Queen duly appointed by the infallible transmission of divine wisdom given to the Righteous Church of the United States.

Good luck, younger ones! Think slowly and carefully about a future which you are even now helping to build! Will it be Just? Will it honor liberty? Will it be dignified? Will each have access to develop their humanity as fully as they can?

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Absolutely disgusting man and a waste of space. I support post-natal abortion in his case.

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