Posted on 06/24/2013 4:52:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
The House passed a historic piece of legislation last week that prohibits late term abortion.
The “Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act” -- introduced by Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) along with 187 co-sponsors and passed in the House by a vote of 228 to 196 -- prohibits abortion after 20 weeks.
As Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) noted in her remarks, science is clear that, at the end of the second trimester of pregnancy, the unborn child feels pain.
This initiative was a response in the House to the outrage triggered by the Kermit Gosnell tragedy, with the Philadelphia abortion doctor recently convicted of murdering three children through late term abortions.
While science and common sense make it clear that a child in the womb after 5 months is living, moving, and feeling, our President -- who likes to present himself as a man of compassion -- has wasted no time in promising to veto this bill. In fact, he doesn’t even want to have the conversation.
Immediately after the bill passed the House, the Executive Office of the President issued a statement saying that this bill was “an assault on a woman’s right to choose” and that if presented with the bill, the President’s “senior advisors would recommend that he veto” it.
Does a woman’s “right to choose” really include murder?
Don't the American people at least deserve an explanation from their President as to why a child -- moving and feeling in its mother’s womb -- is not life? And if it is life, why it is not murder to kill this child? And if it is murder, why should it be legal in a nation that claims to be civil, moral, and free?
You might think that differences in ideas and values are what divide our country, but perhaps the real divider is words.
Who would challenge the words in our Declaration of Independence, written almost two and a half centuries ago, that “all Men are created equal” with rights to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”?
Today, a black man sits in the White House, but at the time of our nation’s founding, black skin was enough to disallow a man from being legally considered a man.
Americans look back in disbelief that this was once so -- that someone who looked just like our President couldn’t even be treated like a human being.
We’re still having a hard time with words -- especially the word "life." Perhaps with no small amount of irony, the black man in the White House, who once might not have been considered a “man," cannot accept that a child is “life.”
Even worse, our President doesn’t want to even discuss this very painful issue.
Most Americans have a real problem with legal late-term abortions. In a 2011 Gallup poll, 79 percent of those who are “pro-choice” and 94 percent of those who are “pro-life” said third trimester abortion should be illegal. Fifty two percent of those “pro-choice” and 90 percent of those “pro-life” said second trimester abortions should be illegal.
When the majority of the American people see the grave moral problem of late term abortion, shouldn’t they hear from their President? Shouldn't he defend the legality of this moral outrage? At the very least, he should recognize and respond to the overwhelming concerns borne by most American citizens.
Lot of money in abortions.
Lot of that money is going to dem politicians to keep it legal.
Wouldn’t want baby murderer on my resume’ when I go before Saint Pete.
Of course the bastard will veto it. Did anyone really expect otherwise?
A veto can be overturned. Pray that it will
The headline should state that the House passed an "unconstitutional" act.
Neither abortion, marriage, nor flag burning is the business of the Federal government.
I am personally against abortion for virtually any reason. It is not my business nor is it the business of the Congress if a state allows or prohibits abortion. The Constitution granted Congress and only Congress the power to legislate within the specific powers and only within the specific powers enumerated in the Constitution.
Section. 1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
The powers not herein granted are powers left to the states and the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Make him veto it, so that the history books are clear which side of the issue Obama stood on. Let the history books record that Obama was partially responsible for 10 times the deaths than the Nazi’s, and all of them babies!
History will not be kind to him.
So Democrats voted FOR babies’ painful deaths. When will Pelosi be excommunicated from the Catholic Church?
There is real science behind this unlike the flim-flamery that “The Great ObamaNation” is about to rerun on US about global warming.
When the winds shift ugly, obama always goes with the extremists. Even if most liberals don’t favor the legality of killing a child one minute prior to full term delivery...obama would have to favor it. Because it’s not just wrong, it’s extremely wrong, and evil needs someone to stand on the far end of the evil side of the seesaw. Makes the good side slip faster.
Does anyone really think this will get past the senate?
“Does a woman’s “right to choose” really include murder? “
The issue distilled to one question.
Humanism - the religion on which the politics of the left are based - has the assumptive tenet that people alive today are superior to any past humans.
It’s funny, though, that they are incapable of projecting that belief system beyond the here and now. People of the future ARE going to look back on pro-aborts the way our society of today looks back on pro-slavers.
I brought this up with a pro-abort leftist (”how do you feel about the idea that future people will look back on your beliefs as being as abhorrent as slavery?”),
and she seemed to totally reject any thought other than the present day viewpoint on abortion.
States can legalize killing?
No. That’s what is unconstitutional
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