Delicious irony

For years, the anti-choice brigade has been trying to overturn Roe v. Wade bit-by-bit. Recently, Bush signed a bill outlawing so-called "partial-birth abortions". And the department of Health and Human Services issued a regulation that allows states to classify fetuses as "unborn children", which would make them eligible for health care coverage (but not the mothers). This is a slick trick -- attempting to make more people think abortion is murder. Well, I'm glad to say that this appears to be backfiring on the right.

Myrna Dick went to renew her papers with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service last month, and she wound up in custody. Officials accused her of lying to border patrol officers in 1998 and said it was grounds for deportation to Mexico.

But Dick, who is married to an American citizen, is pregnant with her husband's child. Judge Scott Wright wants to know if the fetus is a U.S. citizen, and if so, whether it can be deported. The judge asked attorneys for both sides to search for relevant precedents before he would rule.

"Clearly, that isn't an issue either side had contemplated," Dick's attorney said.

Catch-22! Conservatives want to be anti-immigrant and anti-choice at the same time, but now it looks like you can't.

Checkmate!

(Via No More Mister Nice Blog)