Posted on 09/13/2004 11:12:28 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
The Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act (S.2466) will insure that women seeking an abortion are fully informed regarding the pain experienced by their unborn child. Unborn children can experience pain, and they can certainly respond to touch from outside the womb.
To adress this issue, U.S. Senator Sam Brownback has introduced--with 23 cosponsors--The Unborn Child Pain Awarness Act (S. 2466), which would require those who perform abortions on unborn children 20 weeks after fertilization to inform the women seeking an abortion of the medical evidence that the unborn child feels pain--
a. through a verbal statement given by the abortion provider, and also,
b. by providing a brochure--developed by the Department of Health and Human Services--that goes into more detail than the verbal statement on the medical evidence of pain experienced by an unborn child 20 weeks after fertilization.
The bill would also insure that the woman, if she chooses to continue with the abortion...has the option of choosing anasthesia for the child.
TAKE ACTION TODAY! Enter your zip code...and click GO! to contact your U.S. Senators today and urge them to co-sponsor this vital legislation.
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DONE WITH PLEASURE. Thanks for posting this. I hope every FReeper signs this Senate Bill.
That's exactly the sort of legislation that should be left solely to STATES, not Washington. When the US Congress debates bills like this, the "Lacy Petersen bill" (um, isn't murder a felony in all 50 states?) flag-burning amendments etc., it's nothing more than a 535 member circle je ... well, you get the idea.
Thanks for contacting your senator. Hopefully more will.
They had one of those at our State fair that I signed.
Please click on the source URL and contact your Senator. Tell them to co-sponsor this bill: (S. 2466). Thanks.
Why should this bill be left up to the states? This bill doesn't interfere with Roe v. Wade, does it? It just informs the mother of the pain that a child feels, which any caring mother would want to know.
Anyway, if you feel that way, do you think that each state has the right to deny or restrict abortions? Do you think that the issue of abortion should be de-federalized?
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As well, this bill (S. 2466) has nothing in common with flag burning, etc...That's just smoke and mirrors.
Liberals/Democrats will never go for each state deciding whether or not to allow abortions, via a overturning of Roe v. Wade and de-federalizing it, hence giving the states jurisdiction over this matter.
Therefore this bill(S. 2466) has to be done at the federal level.
"Anyway, if you feel that way, do you think that each state has the right to deny or restrict abortions? Do you think that the issue of abortion should be de-federalized?"
Yes, yes, oh yes! And, Justice Scalia feels the exact same way.
You're obviously completely unfamiliar with the law. Yes, murder was already a felony. What the Laci and Connor's law provides is that when there is a viable infant in the womb of a women and violence against her kills the baby, the BABY is a separate human victim of murder.
In the Peterson case, there were two murders committed, Laci and Connor.
States are allowed parental notification and waiting periods. If S.2466 is unconstitional, it will be struck down by the Supremes whether passed in Congress or some state house. If the Supremes decided it is constitiutional, again, it matters not if the bill becomes state or federal law.
Well, regardless of what Scalia thinks, the liberals/Democrats will never go for de-fedralizing the abortion issue. So all bills that deal with abortion in one way or another have to be dealt with at the federal level.
So you shouldn't be aginst those who want S.2466 passed, you should be agasint the Lib's/Dems who wont allow a de-federalizing of the abortion issue.
I find it rather odd that Kerry and other Democrats seemingly want the same-sex marriage issue left to the states, but yet obviously don't want the abortion issue left to the states. Theres a reason to that, which anyone can see.
"In the Peterson case, there were two murders committed, Laci and Connor"
I agree. But traditionally it's been left to states to determine who is a murder victim, as opposed to manslaughter etc.--unless the murder was committed on federal property, the high seas, etc. Lacy and Connor were not, so far as known, murdered at such a locus.
Thanks for the post. I have a thread that deals with Laci and Conner's Law. (H.R.1997) What you said nails it on the head.
Hypocrisy is rife on the left, we all know that. As a conservative, I am arguing from a viewpoint of pure federalism. All that is not expressly reserved to the feds is left to the states. Criminal law, marriage and the family are classic examples of state matters.
There is nothing unconstitutional about S.2466. Nothing in it intereferes with Roe v. Wade.
There is no clause within Roe v. Wade that states that a woman has a right to be uninformed.
I agree entirely! All I'm saying is that such legislation is better suited for debate in state houses. the US Congress has enough on its plate.
So what you are saying is that it should be up to each state whether an abortion victim should or should not feel pain during the act of infanticide, is that right? YOU ARE A VERY SICK PERSON. I hope you feel the pain of every baby that is murdered in the mother's womb.
Exactly. Everything from cigarettes to computer keyboards have a warning label. Why should a medical procedure involving a guaranteed fatality be exempt?
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