The 9th Circus Court ruled Partial-Birth Abortion Bans are unconstitutional. Not to be outdone, the 2nd Circus Court (in Manhattan) did the same.  What’s particular about the second one is the following:

[T]he 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan issued a similar decision, affirming a 2004 ruling by a judge who upheld the right to perform a type of late-term abortion even as he described the procedure as “gruesome, brutal, barbaric and uncivilized.”

And people doubt the depravity of man?  How is it that we can legalize something “gruesome, brutal, barbaric and uncivilized”?  Let’s put this in a little perspective:

Hitler killed Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and other “undesireables.”  These actions would most certainly qualify in anyone’s book as “gruesome, brutal, barbaric and uncivilized.”  Let’s therefore use the same logic and make it legal for people to kill Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, or any other “undesireable” they choose.

Rape is “gruesome, brutal, barbaric and uncivilized.”  So let’s make that legal too.

Of course, we could really stick it to the liberals–torture is “gruesome, brutal, barbaric and uncivilized.”  So tell me why you have a problem with Iraq again?

And then we can deal with the second excuse: “the measure is vague and lacks an exception for cases in which a woman’s health is at stake.” Okay, let’s suppose that it’s true that it lacks an exception for when women’s health is at stake.  Can you please show me how a woman’s health is anymore at stake if she delivers a child all the way except for the head than if she delivers the child all the way?  Please explain that one to me, because that is what the procedure is.

But of course abortion isn’t about women’s health.  It’s about “choice.”  It’s about “convenience.”  It’s about “covering up the icky little mistake.”  Well, make no mistake about it, these excuses demonstrate nothing more than our depravity.