This is part of my email which I received this morning from the pro-life Susan B. Anthony list:
“Take Action: Call your Representative to tell them to end the war on unborn girls by passing PRENDA (H.R. 3541).
Yesterday, the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA), H.R. 3541, which would ban sex-selective abortions, was debated on the House floor. Due to Congressional procedures, however, the vote has been moved to TODAY, which means we need your immediate help.
The House could vote on this life-saving legislation as early as this afternoon, so act now!”
Please make that call now!
This issue points up a huge problem with abortion. It’s shocking that somebody would have an abortion just because she is carrying a baby girl. Opening up abortion rights as we have done, just allows people to have an abortion for any absurd reason.
I wonder what the left thinks of this. The left loves abortion as some civil right. The left claims to advance women’s rights, yet some want to abort women before they are born. I look forward to the left explaining their position on this one.
Before someone jumps in...yes, this is a symbolic vote put out there to play partisan politics.
But, it will serve a purpose. It will frame the issue the same way the partial birth abortion debate framed the issue. It will open many eyes to:
1) the fact of just how extreme abortion has become
2) how extreme the left is in its defense of abortion
The left always argues abortion from the standpoint of a young, unmarried girl (or rape victim) being force to carry to term an unplanned pregnancy.
Abortion in the USA has moved way beyond that, and we need to highlight what it has become. It’s now a lifestyle choice, driven by someone’s current mood than desperate choice.
A child is not a fashion accessory, but that’s what sex selection abortions treat it as.
Since there are already laws that criminalize discrimination based on sex, shouldn’t the person requesting the abortion based on gender be the one to be prosecuted?