[wagglebee]

"For the first time in years," says Brown, "we have a politically significant number of supporters in Congress who are willing to stand up for life. Now is the time to act."

What I want to know is why this wasn't done years ago.

[wagglebee]

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[supercat]

Politically, abortion is not going to be ended overnight. Even if Congress did manage to pass legislation doing so, the backlash would be sufficient that the next Congress would repeal it.

Conservatives need to borrow a page from the liberals' playbook and learn incrementalism. The vast majority of the public is opposed to the late-term abortion on demand and unambiguous infanticide that goes on (I know of very few people--even abortion supporters--who would say that throwing a live baby into a dumpster so it dies is anything less than infanticide). Then once the most heinous forms of abortion are restricted, one can start to ask how the next-most-heinous form is really different.

Once there is near consensus among the public that a particular form of abortion is sufficiently bad that it should be forbidden, then legislating such prohibition will cement that. Trying to pass legislation without such consensus, though, is a recipe for disaster.

[BearArms]

Without total protection under the law," she says, "preborn children will continue to die."

"Preborn children" do continue to die in dozens of countries around the world where abortion is and has been very illegal. Has this woman been to South America lately?

[Ronaldus Magnus]

It isn't lost on Brown that the bill's sponsor is a member of the Republican Party -- a party about which she has voiced repeated disappointment as the GOP, the majority party in both chambers, appears to be unable to get pro-life bills enacted.

Judie and her ilk in Wisconsin have actually lobbied against pro-life legislation such as our 24 hour waiting period and parental notification laws. I've had several pro-life state legislators come up to me completely dumbfounded over why ALL's Wisconsin affiliate would join forces with Planned Parenthood to oppose their baby saving legislation. Sadly, these modern day pharisees may well be doing more harm than good in ending the abomination of abortion.

[mvpel]

H.R. 552, which now has 100 co-sponsors in Congress, establishes "equal protection for the right to life of each born and preborn human person" -- then goes on to define "human person" as a member of the species homo sapiens "at all stages of life," including the moment of fertilization, cloning, or "other moment" at which the person "comes into being."

I think she may be overreaching in thinking that a simple legal definition of what has been scientifically established as fact would immediately end all abortion.

After all, it is, and always has been, 100% legal for an ordinary person to kill another adult human person under certain circumstances.

[A. Pole]

What I want to know is why this wasn't done years ago.

Election is coming now.

[cpforlife.org]

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