Why do we have laws -- passed by the legislature or by the people of any given county, state or nation -- if the courts are going to continue to be allowed to overturn such laws?

Several years ago the good people of the sovereign state of Colorado passed a law making abortion illegal in their state. A short time later, judges "tossed down" the law, stating that it was unconstitutional. We've seen the same thing in the past in many states around the nation.

Now, the State of Missouri passes a law -- at the request of the state Department of Health and Senior Services -- requiring any clinic providing five or more abortions per month to meet the safety regulations that must be met by any other ambulatory surgery center within the state, and the courts once again intervene to bail insure that organizations like Planned Parenthood stay in the baby killing business.

When the law was passed, Planned Parenthood sued, crying that the changes and renovations necessary for them to meet the regulations would cost so much that the organization might have to stop providing abortions in Columbia and Kansas City, Missouri.

On Monday, September 24th, U.S. District Judge Ortrie Smith ruled that the law could violate Planned Parenthood's constitutional rights if the Missouri health department adopted regulations so harsh that they posed an undue burden on Planned Parenthood. The judge also told Planned Parenthood to let the department know just what regulations, specifically, it wanted waived, and to do it within 30 days. The department will then have 30 days to respond.

Do the math.

That's at least an additional 60 days that such organizations will have to end the lives of unborn children. How many babies will never see the light of day during those 60 days?

We will never know.

Peter Brownlie, president of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, whose organization provides 500 to 600 abortions per year in Columbia and 150 to 200 abortions per year in Kansas City, is quoted as saying his organization has been "providing safe abortion care" for 20 years.

My question is, safe for whom?

Certainly not for the innocents who are daily losing their lives in his clinics.

So here it is again. Another case of the court system overstepping its constitutional bounds.

When will we, as Americans, say "enough is enough!" When will we take a stand for what is right? When will we insist that the government follow the guidelines set forth over 200 years ago when our founding fathers ratified the Constitution of the United States of America?

I hope it happens before it's too late.