I no longer have any optimistic doubt over the blatant maliciousness of most “pro-life” leaders. That’s gone, folks. These people have sunk far beyond a heart two sizes too small and straight into compassion limbo. There’s a rift in the antiabortion crowd forming around the “Partial-Birth” Abortion Ban, and it boils down to one simple question:

One group contends that it doesn’t go far enough. After all, when a pregnancy starts to go seriously wrong, many women have access to comprehensive health care - including abortion. When you genuinely believe that any uppity bitch who would dare end her own pregnancy should at least have to stab herself with a coat-hanger to do so, banning just one of the safer procedures seems terribly insufficient.

Carhart is even “more wicked than Roe” because it is “not a ban, but a partial-birth abortion manual” that affirms the legality of late-term abortions “as long as you follow its guidelines,” the ads said.

But the cluster of assholes on the other side of the rift is much more optimistic about the danger to women inherent in this legislation:

Doctors adopted the late-term procedure “out of convenience,” Minnery added. “The old procedure, which is still legal, involves using forceps to pull the baby apart in utero, which means there is greater legal liability and danger of internal bleeding from a perforated uterus. So we firmly believe there will be fewer later-term abortions as a result of this ruling.”

Kill or mutilate a few women and make them an example to the rest. Tie the doctors’ hands so that they must choose between illegally performing the safest procedure, legally performing a far more dangerous one, or simply leaving desperate women to deal with serious health risks on their own.

And these people call themselves “pro-life.” Disgusting.

Hat tip, Pandagon.