This bill is evil and I don’t support it. I’ll let others comment on the cheap political deal aspects of this and how it serves to once again keep conservatives on the plantation. I would rather discuss the evil that underpins it.
So what this bill would do if it becomes law, is to make abortions illegal after 20 weeks. However, abortions are just fine up to 19.9999 weeks. So let me ask our esteemed supporters of ProLife, Inc. a question: what right do you have to make a horsetrade to exchange the lives of a small number of babies by effectively authorizing the extermination of the many?
If you ever wanted to see a deal with the devil in all its damnable glory, this is it. All it’s missing is the belch of brimstone.
Excellent post!
This bill is nothing more than an effort by those who CLAIM to be pro-life to legalize and legitimize abortion.
Just like the partial birth abortion ban this bill won't actually save a single life and is so full of loopholes that the abortion industry will continue unabated.
Big Murder and ProLife, Inc. are playing the roles of Tom and Jerry in the American Holocaust. Big Murder will collect donations to preserve the "right" to murder and ProLife, Inc. will collect donations to continue passing "and then you can kill the baby" laws.
Either a baby is a person or it isn't. If it's a person it has absolute rights to protect it. If the baby isn't a person, why is it necessary to kill it?
Personhood from the moment of conception until the moment of natural death is the ONLY moral and logical designation.
This bill pretends that the above first natural moral law principles of our free republic's charter do not exist.
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
-- The Preamble, or Statement of Purpose, of the United States Constitution
This bill violates every single clause of those stated purposes.
"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
This bill is in direct violation of the explicit, imperative equal protection requirements of those two Amendments.
"The appellee and certain amici argue that the fetus is a 'person' within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. In support of this, they outline at length and in detail the well known facts of fetal development. If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the Amendment."
-- Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Roe vs. Wade, 1973
Even Blackmun admitted that if they are a person, "OF COURSE" they are protected by our Constitution. Today the "pro-life movement" admits to the obvious natural fact that they are persons, and then continues to write bills that pretend that they are not, bills which deny equal protection for the supreme right of every person.
"You shall not murder."
-- Exodus 20:13
God has never amended or repealed that imperative command, and it encompasses protection for every single individual person.
"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever."
-- Thomas Jefferson
When even the Christians are pushing immoral, unconstitutional, lawless "laws" that grant permission in the statutes to allow the mass slaughter of innocents, as long as they are killed on schedule and by an arbitrary set of man-made rules, be afraid. Be very, very afraid.