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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Bald Eagle who wrote (492680)11/14/2003 3:20:07 PM
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Out of the picture on the abortion ban

By Ellen Goodman, 11/13/2003

MAYBE THIS picture isn't worth a thousand words. That honor probably belongs to the flight deck portrait of the president under the sign ''Mission Accomplished.''

Maybe the presidential photo op now flying around the Internet and soon to be available on your local T-shirt is only worth 750 words.

The picture shows the president surrounded by an all-male chorus line of legislators as he signs the first ban on an abortion procedure. It's a single-sex class photo of men making laws governing something they will never have: a womb.

This was not just a strategic misstep, a rare Karl Rove lapse. It perfectly reflected the truth of the so-called partial-birth abortion law. What's wrong with this picture? The legislators had indeed erased women. They used the law as if it were Photoshop software, to crop out real women with real problems.

Indeed, just days after the shutter snapped, three separate courts ordered a temporary halt to the ban on these very grounds: It doesn't have any exemption for the health of a women.
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It's a deliberate, willful first strike at some of the most vulnerable women, those who need medical help the most."

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