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Posted on 01/15/2008 4:02:17 PM PST by wagglebee
Chicago, IL (LifeNews.com) -- A leading national pro-life group that works with state legislators to pass pro-life laws has released a new national ranking of states based on the laws they've approved related to abortion and bioethics topics. Americans United for Life's fifth annual ranking of the most and least pro-life state shows Michigan in the lead for the third time.
After Michigan, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Kansas topped the list. South Dakota, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Virginia rounded out the top ten.
"These states have made great strides in protecting women and their children from the negative consequences of abortion," Denise Burke, an AUL attorney, told LifeNews.com Tuesday.
On the bottom end of the scale, Oregon, which has the only law legalizing assisted suicide, placed last with California, Connecticut, New Jersey, Vermont and Hawaii finishing in the bottom.
Not surprisingly, euthanasia advocates have pressed for laws allowing assisted suicides in most of those states.
AUL's criteria covers each state's treatment of all pro-life issues and the final ranking depends largely on each state's enactment of prudent and well-supported laws limit abortions as much as the Supreme Court has allowed.
Among the laws that AUL looks for are informed consent, parental involvement for minors, abortion facility regulations, and abortion funding limits.
"Until all the pieces are in place to make the overruling of Roe a realistic possibility and until the truth has replaced misinformation about abortion," AUL president Clark Forsythe said, "laws that put fences around the abortion license and highlight the negative impact of abortion on women are imperative. And those laws are being passed in the 50 states."
The ranking also seeks to answer the question: Thirty-five years after Roe, are we making progress to restore a culture of life in America?
"We are making progress, state by state and law by law. In states that have passed these types of laws, the abortion rates have declined by up to 20% over the past 10 years," Burke said.
"Further, these laws highlight the significant dangers--physical, psychological, and relational--posed by abortion."
"Once the scope of the negative impact of abortion on women is fully understood, support for most or all abortions will erode and a renewed culture of life will be within our grasp," Burke contends.
Related web sites:
Americans United for Life - http://www.aul.org
Hopefully, a state will soon pass a law that forces the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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Michigan’s a great pro-life state, but unfortunately they’re stuck with a fanatical pro-abort governor.
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According to Notre Dame Law School Professor Charles Rice, this patch
work of child killing regulations will leave abortion
legal in America long after Roe is overturned.
You make a good point; however, without a law in place to be challenged, it is nearly impossible to get Roe overturned.
We just shouldn’t be passing laws that end with,
“and then you can kill the baby.”
We don’t have that authority.
God said “Thou shall not murder.”
Abortion is always wrong!
Indiana says it is wrong unless the woman gives her consent. Madness!
“Hopefully, a state will soon pass a law that forces the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.”
Yes, let’s hope that happens. Ultimately, I do believe that infanticide will largely disappear in the US. But I don’t think it’s going to have a whole lot to do with the courts or the legality of the procedure. Actually, I expect that infanticide will be illegalized again, but only shortly after the infanticide clinics shut their doors for lack of business.
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