Texas HB2

     "I am pleased to see the Supreme Court protect women's rights and health today," said President Obama after the 5-3 ruling that struck down HB2.  A law that would require clinics to follow surgical center standards, and the doctors performing abortions would have to have accessing rights to hospitals. 
     Has common sense taken a vacation within the Supreme Court?  If you decide to be in the pro-choice crowd, that is one thing, but to say HB2 would create an "undue burden" on a woman's right to an abortion is complete nonsense.  When I heard this decision, the very first thought that crossed my mind was why on Earth wouldn't we want this?  How would any woman decide to have an abortion in a dirty clinic that did not meet the same standards as a surgical center?  After all, this is an intensely brutal procedure, why wouldn't you want a sterile environment?  This doesn't sound like an undue burden, it sounds like the lawmakers in Texas saw some less than desirable clinics in their state.
     This also chips a little more away from States rights.  A state knows better than the Federal government what is happening within their state lines.  This ruling is doing nothing more than sending a strong signal that Big Brother knows better than you.  Or the Federal government THINKS they know better but really just end up repeatedly making a fool of themselves.
     So how is it that we have become a nation so obsessed with linking abortion to women's health care?  It all comes around to verbiage.  Most have become so numb to the idea that what has actually been created is a life, that a child in the womb is an actual person with a soul.  Instead we are being fed lies, being able to call what a woman is carrying a "fetus" instead of a baby.   This fetus isn't a person but a clumping of cells that doesn't feel, which makes it is easier to stomach a procedure to end it. 
     In the end it really is not a song of women's health care, it is a matter of morality.  The Supreme Court did not weigh in on the side of women's health, nor any undue burden. They caved to a society who have become flippant on the value of human life.