Posted on 01/25/2015 2:05:09 PM PST by Morgana
Forty-two years after the Supreme Court legalized abortion in its Roe v. Wade decision, Vermont pro-choice activists gathered in a Statehouse meeting room Thursday morning to remind one another that Congress and other states are making moves to restrict access to abortion.
“It’s not a fight that’s going to go away,” former Gov. Madeleine Kunin told those attending the gathering, which was organized by Planned Parenthood of Northern New England.
In the nearby Statehouse cafeteria, tables were littered with fliers emphasizing the value of adoption and offering testimonials from women who regretted abortions. The Vermont Right to Life Committee spent $20,000 to put copies of the fliers in 21 publications around Vermont and will be airing a pro-adoption television ad, executive director Mary Hahn Beerworth said.
“This is going to be a big agenda item for us,” Beerworth said.
By Thursday afternoon, the abortion issue hit the House floor, even though there is no active legislation in Vermont to change state abortion law. Pro-choice activists insisted on a roll-call vote on a resolution recognizing the Roe v. Wade anniversary. The resolution comes up virtually every year, but it's rare for lawmakers to insist on putting members on-record with a roll-call vote.
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Just think how happy that must make barack hussein obama.
They’re restricting legal murder. My, how liberals have captured and framed the issue.
Unsurprisingly, pro-abortion activists evidently do not understand that the states have never delegated to Congress, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate abortion. Activist justices wrongly amended the so-called PC “right” to have an abortion to the Constitution from the bench imo, wrongly usurping 10th Amendment-protected state powers to regulate abortion.
Raise your hand to invoke the wrath of the Creator!
A socialist utopia. Unless you have to pay property taxes.
How many of these abortion supporters call themselves Catholics? When will they be excommunicated?
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