Excellent Points on the Senate's Passage of Abortion Blocking Bill

Bukko in Australia, responding to my post on this topic, has some smart points to make here:

So let's cut to the chase about what this bill really means. How many times are young girls actually spirited across state lines for abortions? Maybe on average 10 times per state per year? Can you imagine it being as many as 100 in each abortion-forbidding state? Hardly something that rises to the level of needing a national law.

I believe this is actually about two things. One is another symbolic sop to the right-wingers who must regularly be fed the raw meat of "I, your noble Congresscritter, have voted in favour of a law to stop abortion." Never mind it's mostly meaningless...

The more sinister is that this will enable federal authorities to invade abortion clinics. The forces of Alberto Gonzales now can force clinics to provide records of how girls got to their doors. They can go to court and demand production of taxi vouchers, along with the names, ages, etc. of everyone who came in. It's an opening for intimidation the way they did in Kansas with the "child rape" excuse. Things are never simply as they seem -- they're usually much worse...