Posted on 07/10/2008 11:58:12 AM PDT by rhema
Women considering an abortion in South Dakota will receive more complete information about how the procedure will affect their bodies and what will actually happen to their unborn child thanks to a ruling by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
South Dakota passed a law in 2005 requiring abortionists to inform women that the procedure ends the life of a living human being, and that they could suffer physical harm from the procedure as well. Jordan Lorence, senior counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), says Planned Parenthood immediately sued to block implementation of the law.
"They don't want to tell women all the facts because, if women decide not to get abortions based on that total package of information, Planned Parenthood wouldn't get money," Lorence explains. "The doctors, therefore, have a conflict of interest."
A three-judge panel of the 8th Circuit initially blocked the law from going into effect, but the full court recently ruled 8-7 that states can require doctors to provide "truthful, non-misleading" information to women who are considering an abortion -- even if that information may encourage them to choose to let the child live.
"The 8th Circuit realized that there's nothing unconstitutional about this," the ADF attorney comments. "This is not harming women in any way; in fact, it's helping them by giving them more information about abortion." And that all adds up, he says, to good news for those waging the battle on behalf of the unborn.
"[T]here's somewhat of a change -- a thaw, I would suggest -- in the way that the courts are viewing governmental restrictions and regulation of abortion. That's a good thing," notes the attorney. "And they are not just striking down all these laws and leaving Planned Parenthood and the other abortionists virtually unregulated, as they have in the past."
In addition to protecting the health of women and the lives of unborn children, Lorence says another positive change could result from the ruling. "Other state legislatures will probably be more inclined -- especially other states in the Midwest that are [under the jurisdiction of] the same circuit court -- to pass these kinds of informed consent laws," he shares.
Lorence believes the more information about abortion that is available to women, the fewer women will choose abortion.
I’ve heard so many stories about abortion providers coercing a woman/couple to have an abortion
and when they chose not to, they had a perfectly healthy child, or a child that lived with some medical help, no different than that needed by a premie.
Also, the providers convince the woman that
“it’s nothing but a glob of cells” etc.
Disgusting, evil people.
How positively BARBARIC!
Brazil, a country of 186,000,000 people, completely abolished abortion several years ago and just recently their representative democracy upheld that decision by a vote of 50 - 4 or some other incredible number. I wait impatiently for the day when the American Republic will follow this decision.
An excerpt from the Brazilian law that abolished abortion: “The punishment for a woman to perform an abortion on herself or consenting to an abortion is one to three years imprisonment. If the abortion causes any harm to the woman the punishment increases by one third. If the abortion causes the death of the woman, then the punishment is doubled for the consenting party.”
With liberals and socialists, your right to know, ends at what they want you to know.
“...that they could suffer physical harm from the procedure as well.”
Breast Cancer and sterility come to mind.
Brazil is around 75% Catholic, a religion that teaches that abortion is murder and a mortal sin. The U.S. population has many more citizens who belong to religions without these same beliefs.
Great news. I look forward to the day when Planned Parenthood no longer exists in this nation.
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