Posted on 02/23/2008 10:27:30 PM PST by Coleus
On this, the 35th anniversary of the tragic Supreme Court decision which legalized abortion in all 50 states, New Yorks citizens find human life under renewed attack, this time through a radical bill proposed by Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
Kathleen M. Gallagher, director of pro-life activities for the New York State Catholic Conference, made the following comment today:
There is much good news to report on the pro-life front. Nationally, abortions have fallen to their lowest rate since 1976, as more people, particularly young people, are taking a fresh look at abortion and seeing not empowerment for women but the killing of a generation of babies. While the pro-abortion movement celebrates a womans right to choose, and demands even easier availability of abortions, most Americans are slowly coming to terms with what our society has wrought, and they are turning away from this horrific choice.
Oddly, many abortion advocates look at the lower abortion rates and rather than rejoice at lives saved, instead see a threat. Here in New York, Gov. Eliot Spitzer has acted aggressively to make abortion even more available and common than it already is, while stomping on the rights of religious providers like Catholic hospitals. His euphemistically titled Reproductive Health and Privacy Protection Act would raise abortion to the level of a fundamental right, like the freedom of speech, and would therefore prohibit virtually any restrictions at all.
This bill would ensure the easy availability of late-term abortions of fully formed infants, even if there was no threat to a womans physical health, and allow non-doctors to perform abortions. It would prohibit discrimination regarding the right to abortion to such an extent that Catholic hospitals could be forced to provide abortions or lose their license to operate. It would prohibit parental notification, expand the over-the-counter availability of the morning-after pill to children of any age and force all insurers to cover abortion for any reason.
In many ways, this intolerable bill is more radical than the original state law legalizing abortion nearly 40 years ago. It would potentially force the closure of Catholic health care institutions and undoubtedly lead to the deaths of countless unborn children who otherwise might have had a chance at life. No matter what Mr. Spitzer calls his bill, clearly it is not about reproductive health. On the contrary, this bill is about death, and it must be rejected.
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Statement on Gov. Spitzer's radical abortion plan |
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Spitzer abortion bill advocacy materials Go here to download flyers and a brochure regarding the radical Spitzer abortion bill. |
Spitzer abortion bill advocacy materials (Spanish) Spanish language materials available for download regarding the radical Spitzer abortion bill. |
Video presentation on Spitzer abortion bill Watch a YouTube video hosted by Kathleen Gallagher, director of pro-life activities, on the Reproductive Health and Privacy Protection Act. |
My senators are Hillary and Chuckie Cheese. No satisfaction there.
My senators are Hillary and Chuckie Cheese. No satisfaction there.
“My senators are Hillary and Chuckie Cheese.”
Mine too. I feel our pain.
Heh, maybe now the “steamroller” has run out of political “steam.” How the mighty have fallen!!!! There is a just God!
If they are violating the Constitution, they need to be impeached. It's a tool that is used far too rarely. The laywers protect each other.
this thread was the first thing that came to my mind when I heard the news yesterday.
I told my hubby last night that I probably should not be enjoying somebody else’s scandal as much as I am - except that he was about to bring partial birth abortion to NY.
He also went on a campaign as AG a few years ago against crisis pregnancy centers. He tried to criminalize their efforts to help women choose life.
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