Posted on 02/28/2006 6:36:43 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
US President George W. Bush signalled his opposition to a South Dakota abortion ban that forbids the procedure even in cases of rape or incest, saying he favors such exceptions.
But Bush declined to predict the outcome of any legal challenges to the legislation, which would make it illegal to terminate a pregnancy except in rare cases when it may be necessary to save the life of the mother.
"That, of course, is a state law, but my position has always been three exceptions: Rape, incest, and the life of the mother," the US president told ABC news in an interview.
Asked whether he would include "health" of the mother, Bush replied: "I said life of the mother, and health is a very vague term, but my position has been clear on that ever since I started running for office."
The bill, which recently gained final approval from South Dakota's House of Representatives, directly contradicts the precedent set in 1973 when the US Supreme Court ruled that bans on abortion violate a woman's constitutional right to privacy.
The bill grants no allowances for women who have been raped or are victims of incest. Doctors who perform abortion would be charged with a crime. It also prohibits the sale of emergency contraception and asserts that life begins at fertilization.
The governor of South Dakota has indicated he is likely to sign the bill.
A leading pro-choice advocacy group has already vowed to challenge the ban in federal court. But that seems to be exactly what many promoters of the legislation seek.
Advocates of the ban do not deny they aim much higher than South Dakota, a rural and socially conservative state, which even today has only one abortion clinic.
Instead, they are hoping the bill will offer a full frontal assault on legal abortions now that the balance of power in the Supreme Court appears to have shifted with the confirmation of conservative jurists John Roberts and Samuel Alito, both of whom are seen as pro-life.
Don't kid yourself; they hate him on EVERY issue.
I'm not commenting on this much except to say that I come down on the side of Bush.
love your tagline btw....
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It's only on this board that I hear people think they aren't reasonable exceptions. In real life, I've never met a person who thought the way these barbarians are thinking. Even in the Baptist churches down here, these are exceptions which are acceptable.
So people who think that ALL unborn children have a right to life are barbarians? That is disgusting. You either think that killing an unborn baby is murder, or you don't. There is no middle ground when it comes to right to life.
exactly
Good post
And the woman isn't repsonsible either. As another man just said on this board, you just think being pregnant is an INCONVIENCE. That says it all. And you'll never understand. Sorry. How come all your compassion is towards a fetus and not towards a living, breathing woman WHO HAS BEEN VIOLENTLY RAPED. Makes one wonder.
Exactly. BTTT.
shhhhhhhh!
don't let that get out.. my rep will be RUINED!
Women do not look in the eyes of their child and see the act that created them. If the woman bonded enough to her child to not put it up for adoption then she will not spend her life seeing the act of rape, she will see her baby.
And no woman is forced to raise a child that she cannot bond with. She has options once the child is born.
I was saying that preventing the morning after pill would end in the dealth of aborted babies. BEcause abortion is still legal, some who can't get the morning after pill, which I say again works JUST LIKE REGULAR BIRTH CONTROL PILLS, end up aborting their baby. The morning after pill prevents abortion.
Yes, I imagine you Chinese are very happy about that.
Ok, so you are saying that any child that results from rape is deserving of death, right?
You do realize that I wholeheartedly agree with you, right?
Well that made all sorts of sense. Not.
Have you never heard of "justifiable homicide"? That is NOT "murder" no matter what you may think.
But in real life there's middle ground. And there always will be. That's the way it is. Because the majority of people in the USA believe the way I and President Bush do.
Excellent post. See my post #195.
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