Posted on 03/22/2022 12:19:09 PM PDT by TedMartin
SACRAMENTO, CA -- Gov. Gavin Newson's abortion council dropped a legislative bombshell. The group of policy makers intend not only to codify the killing of unborn children throughout all nine months of pregnancy but to decriminalize killing newborns days or weeks after birth.
New language added to AB 2223 last week revealed the disturbing intent. The proposed legislation would shield a mother from civil and criminal charges for any “actions or omissions” related to her pregnancy, “including miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion, or perinatal death.” Although definitions of "perinatal death" vary, all of them include the demise of newborns seven days or more after birth.
The bill from Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks (D-Berkeley) also protects anyone who “aids or assists a pregnant person in exercising” these rights. It also allows a woman to sue any police department or legal authority which arrests or charges her for hurting or killing her child under provisions of the bill.
“For years, pro-life advocates have argued there is no moral difference between ending a child’s life days before birth or days after birth. California’s pro-abortion legislators now seemingly agree,” said Jonathan Keller, President of California Family Council.
“A political culture that justifies killing millions of children in the womb is now declaring open season on unwanted newborns. Every Californian must oppose this heinous bill.”
Newsom formed the “Future of Abortion Council” last year in an effort to turn California into a “sanctuary state” for the procedure. Organizers listed AB 2223 as part of their legislation package implementing a 45-point plan to “expand and protect access” to abortion in California.
A few weeks ago, Maryland introduced a bill that “decriminalizes neglecting newborns to death” using the same “perinatal death” language, though the bill hearing was canceled. In 2019, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam was widely condemned for a radio interview asserting doctors could decide to allow children to die after birth “if that’s what the mother and the family desired.”
The first stop for AB 2223 is the Assembly Judiciary Committee, though legislators have yet to announce a hearing date.
The following legal experts, all based in California, asserted that AB 2223 would essentially legalize infanticide:
AB 2223 is not only a pro-abortion bill – it removes all civil and criminal penalties for killing babies born alive under any circumstances. The bill expressly authorizes any person to facilitate late-term abortions and infanticide without legal repercussions. Life Legal condemns the use of euphemisms like “personal reproductive decisions” and ‘reproductive justice’ to justify and encourage the killing of babies in and outside the womb. - Attorney and Chief Executive Officer Alexandra Snyder of the Life Legal Defense Foundation
California lawmakers have crossed a red line by seeking to legitimize the killing of hours-old and even week-old infants. This is not about expanding abortion rights; this is a degree of evil that The overwhelming majority of Americans, regardless of how they identify politically, cannot stomach. We will be working to defeat this insane and diabolical bill. - Attorney Matthew McReynolds with the Pacific Justice Institute
AB 2223 seeks to legalize the killing of babies in California after birth. Depending on how the term ‘perinatal’ is interpreted by the courts, this bill legalizes the infanticide of children several weeks after their birth and possibly as late as their first birthday. If this barbaric bill is enacted, there will be no criminal or civil liability for the mother or those who assist her with killing her baby post-birth. - Attorney and President of the National Center for Law and Policy Dean Broyles
Under the guise of “reproductive health,” this bill seeks to decriminalize killing babies not only in the womb, but also even after the baby is born. This is the most extreme, anti-life bill in California’s history. It legalizes infanticide, plain and simple. - Attorney Nada Higuera with Tyler & Bursch, LLP
In California under AB 2223, former Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who murdered three infants born alive after botched abortions, could not be prosecuted. And incredibly, someone like Gosnell who helped a California mother kill her newborn after birth will actually have a cause of action to sue police for investigating the matter if AB 2223 becomes law. -Attorney Susan Arnall, Esq., Director of Outreach, Right to Life League
Greg Burt is Director of Capitol Engagement for the California Family Council.
Lefticides would be so much more productive.
And satisfying.
God is not going to like this.
Will this be the final stench of sin wafting up to the nostrils of God before He decides He has had enough?
Under the Fourteenth Amendment, these babies are persons and entitled to the full protection of the law.
This is beyond sick.
So this explicitly allows you to kill a newborn baby, and that is and has been their intention.
Procrastination isn’t a crime. I say the mothers choice to unbirth herself can take place until the 26th birthday of the product of conception. That’s the last day of contractual obligation directed by the state.
I love God and do not understand him. Where are you father - we are being devoured by evil.
THIS MEANS THE LITTLE BABIES CAN FEEL PAIN!
Absolute souless effing monsters proposed this.
Dear Angry Americans.
Please do not be upset. Don’t you realize there is a food shortage going on?
Sincerely,
J. Swift
When a child is born, the newborn is a citizen under the 14th Amendment, the newborn's life therefore protected under due process and equal protections imo.
"14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws [emphases added]."
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
Patriots need to elect a new patriot Congress that will actually do its duty to protect newborns from misguided, renegade states like California.
“Opens the door”?? I thought California liberals had already escorted it in and threw it a party.
No surprise here. Welcome to California aka Hell on Earth aka Satan’s Army Home Base
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