Posted on 01/16/2015 9:44:17 PM PST by Morgana
In Indiana, pro-life state Senator Travis Holdman (R-Markle) has proposed a bill that would prohibit abortions if the abortionist knows it’s being pursued because of the unborn baby’s gender or due to a disability.
The bill has been assigned to the Senate’s Health and Provider Services committee; and Chairwoman Pat Miller (R-Indianapolis) said she wanted to discuss the bill with Sen. Holdman before commenting on whether the bill will receive a hearing.
According to the Indy Star, the president of Indiana Right to Life, Mike Fichter said, “We support the bill, because we don’t believe an unborn child should be discriminated against based on disability or sex.” He added, “As a culture, we would never accept the killing of a 2-year-old with Down syndrome or disability.”
Tragically, 90% of women who are given the prenatal diagnosis that their baby will have Down syndrome end the life of their unborn child through abortion. Although it is true that children affected by Down syndrome and other disorders have unique challenges, their lives shouldn’t be seen as less valuable than the rest of us.
However, a few pro-abortion groups are unhappy about the proposed legislation. Carolyn Meagher, the co-president of the Indiana Religious Coalition for Reproductive Justice, said, “It’s always scary when a legislative body wants to practice medicine. Why is this a matter of public health that they’re determining this? When our state creates laws that restrict the ability (for people) to look at their options and decide what is best for them, we are hurting people.”
Additionally, the CEO of Planned Parenthood Indiana, Betty Cockrum, said, “Indiana is one of the most highly regulated, least accessible states in the country when it comes to abortion and reproductive health care.” She believes pro-lifers “seek to erect barriers rather than seeking to reduce unintended pregnancy in the first place.” Thankfully, Cockrum is right about one thing; Indiana has passed some measures that protect unborn life and mothers from abortion. Women seeking abortions in Indiana are told that human life begins at fertilization and that an unborn baby can feel pain. They are also shown a picture of their baby and given the option to hear their child’s heartbeat.
Indiana Right to Life hopes that if this new legislation passes it would stop pro-abortion doctors from encouraging abortion for babies with disabilities. Fichter said, “The statehouse proposal would relieve the fear many parents feel after a diagnosis of disability. It would provide positive support when they are simply scared and feel pressured to make abortion decisions.”
ROT IN HELL, PLANNED PARENTHOOD CEO!
The report on the re-assembly of the body parts is so disgusting i want to hurl. These people are the ones who belong in death camps, these sick disgusting child murdering wackjobs!
No Repubican candidate who is even 1% pro-death can get through, thats final.
“The report on the re-assembly of the body parts is so disgusting i want to hurl.”
That is not even the worst one I could post. I won’t tonight but just saying. These people are so beyond sick it is a nightmare. We are on the outside looking in. I just can’t imagine why these people stay in that hell.
India has banned sex-selective abortions, resulting in people making quiet deals with complicit doctors and an increase in abandoned dead female babies.
I guess choice only goes so far...
An elderly friend who grew up near Peoria, IL during the Depression said that when they drained a reservoir for repairs, they found 17 drowned infants. I knew a woman once whose baby had the fatal Tay Sachs disease. She suffered along with her child for four years until it died. Then she had her next infant tested prenatally and it was OK. I asked what she would have done if it was not OK. She said going through an ordeal like that again would have killed her so she would have had an abortion.
That’s a shame, though I always wonder when babies’ remains are found like that if there was a pregnancy that would have been scandalous (incest or such). I doubt there’d be 17 though; that’s a shame. I would have thought women back then would be more reluctant to do that, and I would have thought there would be more resources for abandoned babies.
My wife was told to have testing done on one of our children, and she refused (there was a risk to the baby inside); the doctors were furious, but she made clear that abortion wasn’t an option regardless of any testing. We both aged a lot waiting for the baby, and everything was fine (thank God).
Remember, this was during the depression in the middle west, farm income was severely depressed people were often very hungry. Have you read The Grapes of Wrath or seen the photos by Dorothea Lang and others?
I understand what drives them; I recall this happening in Brazil much more recently (the mother stops feeding the newborn, and they refer to them as “angels”). Such a shame...
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