Posted on 05/28/2015 4:58:20 AM PDT by Morgana
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Abortions after 20 weeks into a pregnancy, in most cases, are now illegal in West Virginia. The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act took effect on Tuesday, making the Mountain State one of nearly a dozen states with such a ban.
“I’m proud of our folks here in the state for passing this legislation because I think the people of the state want it,” Dr. Wanda Franz, president of West Virginians for Life, one of the leading supporters of the legislation, said on Wednesday’s MetroNews “Talkline.”
“This is very important legislation and a new step nationally for us in the pro-life movement.”
But Margaret Chapman Pomponio, executive director of West Virginia Free, a reproductive health, rights and justice organization, called it a “sad” day.
“It’s beyond politics. This is about healthcare for pregnant women. It’s a mean-spirited bill that is really going to hurt providers who bring life into this world and women who want nothing more than to be mothers,” she said of the legislation that deals with the kinds of abortions that are rare in West Virginia.
Six were performed in 2011, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The new law found wide support within the Legislature where supporters of it argued the state has a duty to protect an unborn child or fetus once that unborn child or fetus can feel pain, a time that, they argued, was at 20 weeks.
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Ms Pomponio calls it “mean spirited? Hey ms pomponio, look in the mirror you evil hag!!!!
The new “law” is lawless, immoral and unconstitutional, because it grants explicit permission in the statutes to kill all the babies, as long as they are killed on schedule.
The U.S. Constitution, the supreme law of the land, absolutely requires every state to provide equal protection for the right to life of every person. Arbitrary schedules have nothing to do with it.
“No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law.”
“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.”
This seems to be the sort of doublespeak/doublethink Orwell wrote about.
It ‘seems’ to be...?
I read her statement three times because it just didn’t make sense to me.
The ban in France is at 12 weeks, of course, all abortions should be banned but we in the USA unbelievably are quite a ways behind other places in the world thanks to that Roe v. Wade ruling.
Who ever said the American people did not endorse all manner of “doublespeak”?
To the American people this means, where is my government check? And when will it be increased?
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