Posted on 07/07/2013 5:20:04 PM PDT by Morgana
Important days are tomorrow, tuesday and wednesday. I will be there Monday for certain. I may be there Tuesday and Wednesday depending on how things go.
If you are interested in going to the Capitol, send me an email and I’ll help you get in touch with folks.
If I was in the Texas legislature, I would vote “nay.”
The bill is immoral and unconstitutional.
“Late Term Abortion” = Killing the child with only its head sticking into the mother’s vagina. Baby killers view this as abortion simply because the entire head of the child hasn’t been seen. There is no medical reason whatsoever that necessitates killing children like this. None.
“The bill is immoral and unconstitutional.”
Care to explain how it is immoral and unconstitutional?
Go Texas!
Like CodeToad said, please explain how preventing the murder of a child is "immoral".
Prayers up for you and ALL who are speaking up for the unborn.
Sure. Though I probably don’t have time to cover all the ways.
First, it fails the Fourteenth Amendment equal protection test.
“No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
The bill uses an arbitrary, capricious “pain” test, without ever explaining any logic for such a test being in any way pertinent. I call this the “don’t worry they won’t feel a thing” codification of permission to kill little babies. One must wonder if, to be consistent, they’re going to “legalize” killing paraplegics. After all, they won’t feel a thing! Or, if you give Grandma enough morphine, is it alright to do away with her? Won’t feel a thing! In any case, personhood is the only legitimate moral and constitutional criteria, not pain nor age.
This legislation actually serves to create a new class of subhumans. Those who they claim can’t feel pain.
And the bill would be piling bad code on top of already bad Texas code.
Ten years ago in Sept., in the wake of the Lacey Peterson murder in CA, Rick Perry and the Republican legislature passed a bill that rightfully recognized the obvious personhood of the child in the womb, which is line with our nation’s core principles and the imperative equal protection demand of our Constitution. Sadly, though, they included another paragraph that provided explicit permission for abortionists to kill innocent little persons.
Folks forget that it was Texas lawmakers, and their failure prior to 1973 to explicitly provide equal protection for the unborn that opened the door to Roe vs. Wade.
They’re continuing in the horrible tradition, sadly.
If they really care about ending abortion, it’s very simple. Provide equal protection for all persons. Simply strip out the 2003 language that gives “legal” permission to kill babies. Since they also recognized the individual personhood of the child in the womb at the same time, in the code, abortion will then be illegal everywhere in Texas, as it should be.
It doesn't protect a single child. It simply says 'kill 'em on schedule,' or, failing that, get the mass murdering abortionist, or the person hiring them, to lie.
And in exchange for no protection, you get to sacrifice the laws of nature and nature's God, the principles of the Declaration of Independence, all of the clauses of the stated purposes of the Constitution, and the explicit equal protections of the Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendments.
What a deal.
How would you like it if YOUR rights were "protected" in this way? How about a law that says it's okay to kill "jeffc" as long as you do it by Sept.? Would that be just, or legitimate, or moral, or constitutional?
“This legislation actually serves to create a new class of subhumans. Those who they claim can’t feel pain.”
Gotta agree there.
Why is Perry pushing so hard to get this? I was under the impression it at least banned late term abortions by banning anything past 20 weeks. Not enough for me, but it’s a start.
The bill also promises to nullify itself, once its restrictions are found to impose an “undue burden” or “substantial obstacle” in the way of ANY pregnant woman in her ability to have an abortion.
In effect, the bill pledges to enable every woman to have an abortion.
This is just more phony NRTL theater. And very bad “law.”
P.S. I agree with your ENTIRE post. Well said.
Because NRTL was meeting in Texas, and he needed to grandstand.
probably designed to be struck down in court
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Perry gets a F- for this one. This isn’t supporting children and banning abortion. This is nothing but a sneak attack on further pro-abortion legislation.
I have often asked people, “Why do YOU, personally, need to have abortions? Why? What need is it of yours to kill your baby?” Never a response. They tend to look away in shame.
you mean its unnecessarily bloated with pap?
I can buy that
I messaged you and didn’t hear back.
It’s an incremental process. The same way we got to where we are today.
The first step is getting laws on the books that recognize arbitrary termination of a pregnancy is wrong, even if it is at 20 weeks. Then you move on to the next step.
Going after the whole pie hasn’t worked; this time the activists are trying the “one piece at a time” approach.
After 40 years of setbacks, the pro-life movement needs some wins, no matter how small they may seem.
IMO.
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