John Sherffius, in an editorial cartoon printed by the KC Star on April 25, 2007, depicts the triangular overhang of the Supreme Court building (the part that shows the lawgivers of history) as the base of a coat hanger.  Captioned "The Roberts Court", this cartoon is meant to decry the recent ruling from the USSC banning a certain method of abortion known as "partial-birth abortion", in which the fetus is almost completely delivered except for the head, and then the head is collapsed (killing the baby, of course), and the rest of the body is removed.

The Court, in the majority written opinion, made it very clear that this procedure should be illegal.  They noted that since other options for abortion were made available to the patient before this particular procedure became necessary, there was no need to invoke any part of Roe v. Wade or Casey v. Planned Parenthood.

Sherffius, and his like believers on the Court, apparently see this ruling as a slippery slope to banning all abortions nationwide.  Such is not the case; had he actually read the opinion, he would have seen this.  The particular procedure is much more heinous than any back-alley coathanger job, and should have been banned years ago.  The Cold Hard Fact is that many babies survive being born prematurely, up to four months in rare cases, and to terminate a viable human being in the seventh month or after simply for fear of a mother's "mental anguish" (even though post-abortion regret is far more of an anguish, and certainly more permanent) is not a justifiable reason to commit manslaughter.  Mr. Sherffius and the four dissenting opinions on the USSC are completely wrong on this issue, and I for one commend the five Justices who (FINALLY) made the Court stand up and start protecting innocent human life...that of the unborn.