Posted on 07/13/2013 2:11:12 AM PDT by lbryce
The Texas Senate gave final passage on Friday to one of the strictest anti-abortion measures in the country, legislation championed by Gov. Rick Perry, who rallied the Republican-controlled Legislature late last month after a Democratic filibuster blocked the bill and intensified already passionate resistance by abortion-rights supporters.
The bill would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy and hold abortion clinics to the same standards as hospital-style surgical centers, among other requirements. Its supporters say that the strengthened requirements for the structures and doctors will protect women’s health; opponents argue that the restrictions are actually intended to put financial pressure on the clinics that perform abortions and will force most of them to shut their doors.
Mr. Perry applauded lawmakers for passing the bill, saying “Today the Texas Legislature took its final step in our historic effort to protect life.” Legislators and anti-abortion activists, he said “tirelessly defended our smallest and most vulnerable Texans and future Texans.”
Debate over the bill has ignited fierce exchanges between lawmakers, and tense confrontations between opponents of the bill, who have worn orange, and supporters of the bill wearing blue. Signs and slogans have been everywhere, bearing long, impassioned arguments or the simple scrawl on a young man’s orange shirt, a Twitter-esque “@TXLEGE: U R dumb.”
The bill had come nearly this far before: a version had been brought to the Senate in the previous session of the Legislature, in June, and was killed by State Senator Wendy Davis, a Democrat from Fort Worth, with an 11-hour filibuster that stalled the bill until after the deadline for ending the session. The filibuster became an overnight sensation on Twitter and other forms of social media, with more than 180,000 people viewing the filibuster live online
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Why yes Barack, something special is happening down here in Texas.
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Too many articles about this bill to ping out - so here's one of them. I will try to find one of them about the diabolical tactics of the pro-death crowd, just in the "know thine enemy" department.
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And before this law, what was protecting babies in the wombs 20 weeks and over?
Have you ever considered that maybe incrementalism is a tactic more suited to the Left? As far as using the tactic of incrementalism with regards to ending abortion, what has 40 years of incrementalism gotten us? Answer: over 55 million dead babies. If that doesn’t show that incrementalism isn’t doing much to end abortion, I don’t know what does.
And still, for all the noise on this thread, and all the rationalizations, and all the personal attacks, the supreme law of the land says:
“No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law.”
— The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution
“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 Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Nothing. Because Rick Perry and the "pro-life" Republicans ten years ago placed explicit permission in the Texas Code to murder all the babies.
Sec. 19.06. APPLICABILITY TO CERTAIN CONDUCT. This chapter does not apply to the death of an unborn child if the conduct charged is: (1) conduct committed by the mother of the unborn child; (2) a lawful medical procedure performed by a physician or other licensed health care provider with the requisite consent, if the death of the unborn child was the intended result of the procedure; (3) a lawful medical procedure performed by a physician or other licensed health care provider with the requisite consent as part of an assisted reproduction as defined by Section 160.102, Family Code; or (4) the dispensation of a drug in accordance with law or administration of a drug prescribed in accordance with law. Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 822, Sec. 2.02, eff. Sept. 1, 2003. Texas Penal Code, Title 5, Chapter 19, Sec. 19.06.
And the new code sections will only make this horrible situation worse. They will now have a whole new classification of subhumans who are specifically denied the equal protection of the laws that the Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendments demand.
It’s simply not an either/or question. Yes, there’s a need to change people’s hearts and minds on this issue. That takes work. That takes going out and engaging with the present opposition to show them the truth. I’ve done that, been doing that for 12 years already.
Support for this bill doesn’t mean you stop doing the rest of it. It’s a step in the right direction. It means that today, you engage again - talk to people, etc.
We can get there. Sitting on your ass isn’t going to get us there.
What has 40 years of waiting for the perfect bill got us?
There is no stopping abortion without an ocean of grace from Jesus Christ. No way will human means stop abortion...The principal source of this grace is the Holy Eucharist.
http://www.therealpresence.org/archives/Abortion_Euthanasia/Abortion_Euthanasia_003.htm
That right there tells me that this bill is a step in the right direction. If you can tell me of a way to pass a bill that will eliminate all abortions and will pass the house, senate, the Governor and then the SCOTUS, I'm listening. I've been part of the pro-life movement since '84 and have yet to see any babies lives saved from the "all or nothing," only from those who have taken steps like the bill just passed. And I do believe that this bill will pat muster even from the SCOTUS. So what is your plan?
A loss of 55 million is better than a loss of 100 million.
And these new code sections are?
Permission to murder children based on an arbitrary, baseless "fetal pain" standard.
There’s still nothing protecting them.
1) They can still kill every single child, as long as they do it on schedule.
2) There’s nothing in the law to prevent the hit man, and/or the one hiring the hit man, from simply lying about the gestational age of the child. To people with consciences seared to the point they can rip thousands of babies to pieces lying is nothing.
3) The language of the bill kowtows to the courts’ “undue burden” standard. In effect, they are assuring the court in advance that they won’t really stop any woman from killing her child if they want to.
The bill is not going to pass muster with the courts, and since the legislators have no actual moral, constitutional, or legal principles left with which to actually argue, and since they are pretty much all a bunch of judicial supremacists, abortion on demand will continue, and confusion over what is actually at stake will still rule the day.
Same old unprincipled game. Same predictable results, every time.
From what I can find, this was already written in the Family Law code since...1973. ( I hate that I can’t italicize and bold...but you get my drift). Wasn’t that around Roe v Wade?
Why it was moved in 2003, I can’t find. I do have a good friend who is a professor in Texas law that I plan on contacting to find out why this happened.
Ya know, EV, I understand where you are coming from. I agree, abortion should be banned..but it ain’t going to happen in today’s world as long as R v W stands.
Since 12 other states have legislation much like this..this may actually pass a promised Supreme Court challenge. An outright ban will not. Sorry you aren’t happy with what you consider a flawed piece of legislation. But a lot of people worked very hard to get it thru. Including the Tx Lege.
The truth of the matter is this... just because abortion is legal people DO NOT have to participate. The ultimate failure of legal abortion will be caused by lack of participation.
Abortion isn’t legal.
Courts don’t make laws.
The Constitution remains the supreme law of the land.
Unalienable rights are just that: unalienable.
According to the principles of our founders, any “law” or judicial decree which violates natural unalienable rights and/or the Constitution is null and void.
I will not argue with your points. The judicial system has long overstepped its original boundaries and needs to be reined in. But this has been going on for more than a hundred years.
We have fallen far from “original intent” of the Constitution. Again a gradual process that has occurred thru many years.
Correcting these things would be the logical starting point in righting the ills we suffer...but seems to be a subject for another thread.
I’ll be looking for your ideas on how to accomplish these goals.
Fair enough.
Have a good evening.
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