Posted on 02/02/2016 9:25:42 AM PST by John Semmens
Baton Rouge District Judge John deGravelles blocked a Louisiana law requiring that abortion facilities comply with state standards for health and safety, calling it unconstitutional.
"The right to an abortion is a constitutional right decreed by the United States Supreme Court in 1973," de Gravelles ruled. "The state is not permitted to infringe on this right by adding conditions that could limit a woman's ability to abort her child."
The Judge dispensed with the argument that the state has the power to set health and safety standards for medical treatments. "The contention that the lack of such standards endangers the health of women undergoing the procedure cannot overrule the fundamental protection given to abortion under our Constitution," he said. "That the procedure entails some risk is not in dispute. However, women must be free to assume this risk in pursuit of their constitutionally protected objective. It is analogous to the Constitution's right to bear arms. Guns are dangerous, but states may not legislate restrictions on ownership or use just by citing this danger. Just as a citizen bearing arms might shoot himself, a woman undergoing an abortion might harm her own health or even lose her life. That such undesired consequences might follow the exercise of a constitutional right does not grant government authorities the power to interfere with the enjoyment of that right."
In related news, President Obama's "common sense" gun control strategy is targeting Social Security recipients for disarmament. Press Secretary Josh Earnest explained saying that "it's a 'years of lives saved' issue. The vast majority of criminals seniors might want to defend themselves against are young men. A young man getting shot costs society decades worth of lost years of life. Preventing seniors from imposing this cost on society is the better trade-off even if it means more seniors become victims. They have a lot less to lose."
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so they do so now? probably not.
I had reason to believe that the pro-aborts were not complying with some laws having to do with building codes. Yeah, I had a mole go in and check and I was right so I called the city inspector. An inspector came and I told him of my concern and he went in. He quickly came back out. It seems once he found out it was an abortion clinic he essentially put his hands up in full surrender.
Yeah, I called him a chicken as he got in his car and drove off.
The least we can do is hold the baby-killers to already established laws and not back off because of some supposed constitutional right to kill humans.
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