Posted on 03/12/2016 8:13:51 AM PST by John Semmens
The two Democratic contenders for the Party's 2016 presidential nomination fended off the possibility that states should have any leeway in limiting abortions carried out within their borders.
In a statement eerily similar to the Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton argued that "fetuses are creatures of an inferior order. They are not persons under the law or Constitution. Consequently, the imputation of their imaginary so-called right to life cannot displace the very real right of the mother to the liberty to not be encumbered with the burdens of pregnancy and child care that anti-choice fanatics would seek to impose on her."
"The right established by the Court in its historic Roe vs. Wade decision would be meaningless if state legislatures are allowed to chip away at them," Clinton added. "Mandatory ultrasounds, 72-hour waiting periods, and prohibition of late term abortions are all infringements on a woman's fundamental right against being forced to bear a child."
Sen. Bernie Sanders (S-Vt) concurred with Clinton's stance and lamented that "the resurrection of the discredited claim that powers not delegated to the federal government by the Constitution are reserved to the states would be used for such a disgraceful objective. Minority women are disproportionate beneficiaries of the right to an abortion. How are attempts to limit these rights not seen as racist?"
Sanders vowed to "appoint Supreme Court Justices that will protect and broaden the rights granted by Roe vs. Wade beyond the artificial birth threshold. Merely surviving the journey down the birth canal is no great accomplishment. It must not be used as an argument for bestowing a whole roster of rights and privileges to the entity that emerges if the mother opposes the continued existence of this entity."
In related news, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin (D-WV) vetoed a bill banning dismemberment abortions. "The Supreme Court has determined that every woman has a Constitutional right to an abortion," Tomblin declared. "Opposition to a procedure that fulfills this right is an attempt to impose a restriction. The contention that the pain of being torn limb from limb somehow validates such a restriction usurps this fundamental right."
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Businessman Donald Trump (R-NY) concurred with Clinton and Sanders’ stance that “Planned Parenthood does great things,” and indicated that his support for the organization would never waiver.
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