NOW, NOW, NOW...THERE THOSE LEFTISTS GO AGAIN.
Posted on 09/20/2008 8:42:05 AM PDT by Graybeard58
A bill is just a bill and can be overturned unlike a Supreme Court ruling. Depending on how far-reaching the bill is, it would probably be ruled unconstitutional.
Thanks for the heads up on this!
Obama said in a speech to PP that his first act as president would be to get this bill passed.
Even if it got through congress, dubya would veto it. Next year, McCain wouldn’t have to veto one because we will have more republicans in the house and senate.
The XIVth Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees the right to life of every innocent person in the United States at a federal level - the states do not get to decide if the innocent live or die.
Abortion is a blatant violation of the XIVth Amendment.
Legally, if Roe were overturned, then it would be up to each state to pass their own laws on abortion,unless this federal law gets passed. Assuming McCain would veto this freedom of choice act, then it would just be up to the states. But remember, liberal states would allow abortion on demand, while more socially conservative states would restrict abortion. Roe vs. Wade being overturned does not mean abortion is illegal again. I’m always surprised at how some of these idiot educated commentators on TV miss this simple point.
One more reason to hope and pray and vote so we don’t see an Obama presidency. A President Obama with backing from the Democrat congress may do some damage.
This should be a real wake-up call for all Americans who value life.
You’re optimistic about next year. Lots of people have been saying that Democrats will beef up their majorities in both the House and Senate in the November elections. I hope you are right and they are all wrong.
The worst combination of all would be a President Obama with backing from bigger Democrat majorities in the House and Senate.
Republicans in the Senate may be using the filibuster a lot with President Obama asking for legislation for this or that liberal cause.
The Federal Government can pass a national law to protect states from limiting abortion? Under what pretense? This is WHY the Left pushes for judical activism.
Based on what I’ve seen, I predict that the Dems will make gains in the Senate but that Repubs will make gains in the House, possibly even take it back. That said, the problem is that the Senate is what decides on SCOTUS nominees and that could still be a problem even if McCain wins.
"It's a very extreme measure," Johnson said. "It's a bill that would make partial-birth abortion legal again, force taxpayers to pay for abortion on demand and invalidate virtually all state and federal limitations on abortion. These radical pro-abortion effects would continue even if Roe vs. Wade was overturned, because the bill really is entirely unconnected to Roe vs. Wade.
You can always modify a bill. And you can bet your last dollar this one will be "modified"
Abortion due to rape? Abortion to save the life of the mother? Get real; going back to the states will slash the abortion rate. You gotta do what you gotta do, in the real world.
Life at Conception Act
Follows the High Court’s Instructions To Define When Life Begins
Now the time to grovel before the Supreme Court is over. Working from what the Supreme Court ruled in Roe, pro-life lawmakers can pass a Life at Conception Act and end abortion by using the Constitution instead of amending it.
A simple majority vote is all that is needed to pass a Life at Conception Act as opposed to the two-thirds required to add a Constitutional amendment.
When the Supreme Court handed down its now-infamous Roe v. Wade decision, it did so based on a new, previously undefined “right of privacy” which it “discovered” in so-called “emanations” of “penumbrae” of the Constitution. Of course, as constitutional law it was a disaster. But never once did the Supreme Court declare abortion itself to be a Constitutional right.
Instead the Supreme Court said:
“We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins . . . the judiciary at this point in the development of man’s knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer.”
I believe the only way abortion would be destroyed would be by the hand of God. Too many women have convinced themselves that in order to be like a man she should NOT have children or have the same no responsibilities when it comes to sex without birth control. Too many women are abused by the abortion issue sexually,in other words they can just get rid of IT. Women take the risk rather they are wounded or die so really women have not put themselves on the same level as men. I pray through God women will wake up and embrace the gift God has given them,gift of life. That is the reason someone like Sarah Palin is such a threat after all she did give birth to a down syndrome baby. Even on the O’Reilly Factor with Laura Ingram both agreed that’s why the liberal left viciously hate Sarah,abortion issue. Pathetic and evil.As long as the liberal left is in power,democrats,abortion will always remain legal,someway,somehow. Look what the dems did to Hillary the strong pro-choice liberal woman,they dumped her.And now the democrats are telling women to be afraid be very afraid the GOP is going to take the right of women to have abortions.That’s how they keep their women in line to vote for them but when they had one to lead they said no.
Abortion is not a Federal matter; there is nothing in the
Constitution about it. It is clearly a State matter.
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