Bush Makes More Last-Minute Deciderings

In yet another eleventh-hour decision from the Bush administration, new legislation has been passed that requires any woman under the age of 40 to notify their grandparents, aunts and uncles within 24 hours of receiving an abortion. They made specific strides to get this legislation into effect before the holiday, strides that appear to have been successful. Already, several grandmothers have received phone calls informing them that their sweet little granddaughters were about to abort their pregnancies.

We spoke to Addie Maye Simmons, a retired secretary, who lives in a nursing home in Stockton, California to get her thoughts on this new law. She would not communicate with us vocally, however, when asked what she had to say to her granddaughter after revealing this information a mere three days before Christmas, she responded with this: