I was NOT trying to start a political debate here . . . or an abortion one.
I was remarking on the willingness of certain people to abandon reality for political/ideological reasons. I understand exactly what they are trying to do . . . they can't tamper with the 20 week line, but they CAN define gestational age . . . and they are using that to move it back two weeks so that abortion before 18 weeks is prohibited. Legally, its actually pretty clever . . . however, its positively surreal in its implications. Arizona's done a lot of surreal things recently.
As for a neutral source, here's the bill. I actually found the whole thing on a comedy site and simply traced back to something that could be called an article to confirm that it wasn't an April Fools. But here's the actual bill if you want to read it.
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/2r/adopted/s.2036jud.pdf
The relevant language is on page 8.
As for the President ignoring the Supreme Court; we'll see. He definitely spoke out of line and what he said was incorrect. But whether he'll ignore the Court's resulting order remains unknown and he has not said he would do so. More important, its not whether he'll ignore it, but whether everyone else does . . . not only the President, but a huge chunk of the executive branch will have to openly defy the Supreme Court. It could happen, but I think its unlikely. The Bush Administration ignored Supreme Court orders, but did they did so under the cover of "national security." Obama does not have that cover, nor is he likely to get that level of cooperation.
So, right now, he's talking out of his behind, and its an election year, so I'm going to ignore it, just like I ignore the ranting and raving from the right when the Supreme Court knocks down their pet laws or makes findings they don't like . . . and there was definitely a phase where the right was arguing that judicial review was not originally part of the Constitution, which, in fact, arguably, it was not. It's a dang good idea, but it really didn't come into clear existence until
Marbury v. Madison was decided, almost 20 years later. And there was a phase in which the right wing was very fond of telling us that . . . because the Court wasn't doing what they wanted.
Everyone thinks the Court is being "activist" and is out of line, and is doing something "unprecedented" when it does something they don't like. I believe that is actually the Court's job . . . to **** everyone off (joking).