Posted on 05/15/2015 5:55:45 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
A South Carolina legislator is blocking a bill he had supported to end abortion at 20 weeks, because other lawmakers added an exception in the case of rape or incest.
Republican State Senator Lee Bright stood up to oppose the 20-week abortion ban from the floor Thursday, saying exceptions for rape or incest victims would unjustly sentence an unborn child to death for the father’s crimes.
“I’m not trying to stop the bill, but I am trying to stop the amendment,” Bright stated in May 15 interview with Dean’s List Commentary, and said he was not filibustering, but educating the senate on the amendment.
“I’m going to stand in the gap for that child that you don’t think deserves a right because his father is a criminal,” he said in the senate on Thursday, according to a Greenville Online report. “Baby Doe, that child who we’ll never meet, is going to have a trial today. And we’re going to decide if it’s guilty of a capital offense because its father was a criminal.”
Pro-life advocate Rebecca Kiessling praised Bright for standing up against rape and incest exceptions in the South Carolina bill.
“Senator Lee Bright is a hero to me and to the multitudes of others from my organization Save The 1 who were also conceived in rape or mothers from rape,” Kiessling told LifeSiteNews.com. “He gets it – you punish rapists, not babies. How hard is that to understand?!”Too often, she said, children conceived in rape or incest are treated by politicians as “bargaining chips.” Bright said he wouldn’t let the amendment pass, and he could persist in opposing it through the duration of the session, which ends June 4.
“I can go nine days,” he said. “It’s a battle of wills.”
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What difference does it make? Obama will veto it anyhow.
This is a South Carolina bill. If it gets to Republican governor Nikki Haley she’ll sign it.
Whether or not the exception stays in really doesn’t matter ... abortionists rarely obey laws regarding gestational age. What will make a difference though is the appendages this will grow ... mandatory reporting of the rape... making the body available to the medical examiner since it is crime related (no fudging the gestational age) ,, and no doubt other related doors being shut. The D&E (dismemberment) ban is getting traction also...
Not going to be a very popular position.
The dirty secret is, there are many people who consider themselves ‘pro-life’, who probably be a huge inertia on changing the status quo.
Am I understanding his position?
Better for abortions to continue as usual if he can’t this this amendment removed?
I admire his zeal, but I hope he doesn’t wind up killing the bill outright.
The reason Canada has no law restricting abortion is that in 1990, when the Mulroney Conservatives introduced Bill C-43, which would have recriminalized abortion after the existing law was struck down in 1988, it passed in the House of Commons. C-43 was a compromise bill that put abortion back into the Criminal Code but allowed for some abortions if a woman’s life or health was in danger. It was too much for the poor-choice crowd, who didn’t want any restrictions, but it also split the pro-life crowd, many of whom thought the compromise went too far. It was pro-life senators as much as the pro-choice lobby that caused the bill’s defeat in the Senate in 1991.
C-43 was a poor law, but it was better than the resulting state of affairs, which is no law. Unfortunately there are a number of anti-abortion crusaders who think the opposite. I hope Senator Bright is not one of those.
RINO position has always been murder the baby for the sins of the father. That way these cowards can’t be seen as “too extreme” on abortion. The real pro-life position, for any decent human being, and certainly anyone who calls themselves a Christian, is no abortion for any reason. It’s murder and it makes no difference who the baby’s father might be.
Well, abortion is not a debatable issue on FR so I’m not to be baited into trying. I’m just telling you Rino or no, there are many ‘pro-lifers’ who will sympathize with ‘pro-choice’ when it comes down to rape, incest and the health of the mother.
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