33 Years of Choice Unable to find a doctor willing to expose himself to criminal charges, a young girl's quest to avoid teenage motherhood takes a disturbing turn. She turns to the black market, composed primarily of drug dealers and weapons peddlers, to find someone willing to terminate her pregnancy. In the worst part of town, a dirty table in a musty room provides the girl with her only hope of choice. All alone, the girl lays down on the cold table. She hands over a wad of cash. A man, lacking any medical experience, "sanitizes" his instrument by running it under hot water for a few moments. He then unravels his instrument, a rusty coat hanger, and plunges it inside the girl. The horrific tearing of her interior sends the girl into horrific pain. Blood gushes everywhere and the man starts to panic. Within minutes, the girl is no more. Her cold, emotionless, dead body is all that remains. This story happened every day before Roe v. Wade guaranteed women the right to choose. Today is the 33 year anniversary of this landmark Supreme Court decision. The Court correctly forced states to follow the Constitution and uphold a woman's private right to make her own decisions regarding her medical care. Every poll indicates that a super-majority of Americans favor choice and oppose governmental restrictions on valid medical procedures. But across a sea of red states, groups inspired by religion alone seek to enforce their beliefs and others. These radicals seek to change the law via a novel Constitutional theory. Under so-called "originalism," precedent means nothing and the only Constitutional interpretation that matters is that of the majority of the current Supreme Court. 33 years of established jurisprudence are irrelevant in the eyes of these madmen. President Bush is the leader of this group. Today Bush publicly showed his flagrant disrespect for the rule of the law and the Supreme Court in general. Bush declared the anniversary of Roe v. Wade "National Sanctity of Human Life Day." Not only does this day contradict the law of the United States, it actively mixes religion with law: When we seek to advance science and improve our lives, we must always preserve human dignity and remember that human life is a gift from our Creator. We must not sanction the creation of life only to destroy it. What if you don't "remember that human life is a gift from our Creator" because you don't believe that? In Bush's version of America, you don't count. The Constitution itself doesn't count, only the religious beliefs of the minority in America who seek to replace the law with the King James Bible. In his declaration, Bush brags about all the work he has done to weaken Roe and steal women's Constitutional rights: America is making great strides in our efforts to protect human life. One of my first actions as President was to sign an order banning the use of taxpayer money on programs that promote abortion overseas. Over the past 5 years, I also have been proud to sign into law the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, and a ban on partial-birth abortion. America is making great strides in Bush's efforts to steal women's rights in favor of flagrant violations of the separation between church and state. It's fundamentally un-American to use religion as the sole justification for undermining the settled law of the Supreme Court. Today is an important holiday and Bush's disgraceful proclamation is yet another reason why you can be certain that both Roberts and Alito will vote to overturn Roe.