Posted on 05/17/2019 2:44:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
Alabama's mostly Republican lawmakers and governor passed a strong abortion ban this week, and liberals are fit to be tied.
"Today, I signed into law the Alabama Human Life Protection Act, a bill that was approved by overwhelming majorities in both chambers of the legislature," said Gov. Kay Ivey. "To the bill's many supporters, this legislation stands as a powerful testament to Alabamians' deeply held belief that every life is precious and that every life is a sacred gift from God."
In today's secular culture, the governor's invocation of God is almost as bold as signing the bill into law. But it's gratifying that some public officials are willing to observe that respect for life is fundamentally a spiritual issue.
I'm sure many leftists are horrified at the reference to God, but they have their hands full hyperventilating over the strictness of the law itself, and so, they will probably let this slide for now. The bill prohibits abortion except when the life of the mother is in jeopardy or the unborn child has a "lethal anomaly." The bill makes it a felony for doctors to perform or attempt to perform an abortion.
In her statement, Ivey acknowledged that the law might not be constitutional under the Supreme Court's notorious 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in all 50 states. But she noted that the bill's sponsors hope the bill will prompt the court to revisit this issue.
Not to be unduly pessimistic, but frankly, I'm not sure why Democrats are so exercised. Justices Roberts and Kavanaugh have both expressed their abiding respect for longstanding Supreme Court precedent, apparently even if, like Roe, its rationale was manufactured out of whole cloth. The court's decision was not only egregious in substance -- inventing a constitutional right to abortion out of imaginary language in the Constitution creatively referred to as "emanations" and "penumbras"; its effect on society was just as bad.
Before the decision, the issue of abortion was the prerogative of the individual states, determined democratically by their duly elected representatives. The court's fiat was not only erroneous on its face; it tyrannically divested the authority of the states. This federal judicial travesty sparked national acrimony over abortion. Judicial tyranny, where it occurs, is just as bad as executive despotism.
Here we are almost 50 years later, and the court still hasn't overturned Roe. But when any of the sovereign states dares to pass a law outside Roe's parameters, liberals become unhinged, huffing hysterically about the state's audacity to deviate from the court's ruling.
Yet every day, liberals around the nation enact measures they know violate existing constitutional precedent with the undisguised intent that they serve as test cases and that courts, under relentless pressure from their activism, will change the law. When liberals do it, it's noble activism; when conservatives do it, it's anarchy.
The Guardian, for example, framed the Alabama law in racial and gender terms. Why not? That's what liberals do. It's almost all they know anymore. "These 25 Republicans -- all white men -- just voted to ban abortion in Alabama," the headline reads. The law, according to the article, "will disproportionately affect black and poor women, because they are more likely to seek abortions, and less likely to have resources to obtain an abortion out-of-state."
Not once did the article allude to the only innocent party in the equation: the unborn baby. Nor did it mention that America's abominably liberal abortion laws result in the grossly disproportionate killing of innocent black babies. Pro-life leaders in the black community have said that "the most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb" and that abortion "is the most institutionalized form of racism" in America.
Planned Parenthood, the left's favorite abortion factory, was outraged at the bill. "Today is a dark day for women in Alabama and across the country," said Staci Fox, CEO of Planned Parenthood Southeast. "Banning abortion is horrible ... We will take this to court and ensure abortion remains safe and legal and accessible in the state of Alabama." She forgot "profitable."
Democratic leaders were seemingly in a competition over who could condemn the law most harshly. Hillary Clinton said it is an example of "appalling attacks on women's lives and fundamental freedoms." We can safely infer that she was not factoring in the female babies' lives the law would protect. Sen. Elizabeth Warren said the "ban is dangerous and exceptionally cruel." She did not comment on whether the law is cruel to the unborn babies. Warren and Sen. Kamala Harris both noted that the law is an attack on Roe v. Wade.
Yes, that's kind of the point, and Alabama's Republicans are admitting it. Isn't it about time the court revisited Roe in earnest? What these Democrats don't say is that their best hope of preserving existing abortion law is for the court to affirm its lawless 1973 decision, either through some newly created legal fiction or in almost-idolatrous fidelity to long-standing but screamingly bad precedent.
As I say, I doubt the court, even as currently constituted, will overrule Roe outright, but it would be a glorious day for America, and for God's innocent unborn babies, if it were to do so.
It’s amazing how fast a lie can travel before the truth ever gets out the front door. I have already seen women here in Australia spouting the untruths about this bill before it has even hit the news cycle. But fear not the TV news will catch up quick for gear of missing out on anti old white men news!
Does anyone think there is the possibility of the Supreme Court giving back the power to individual states as was originally the case or is it the case that once they have decided they have the power to rule on the issue then it is extremely unlikely they will divest themselves of that power?
People just want to fornicate without any consequences. The grandest experience of their whole existence is an orgasm.
Defenders and advocates for abortion ought not be allowed to vote or hold public office. Their position makes them enemies of civil society. Their abortion policies are detrimental to the very principles upon which our country is established.
When all emotional appeal is stripped away from the argument, what you have left is objective truth. When it comes down to brass tacks, the baby is innocent of the conditions upon which he/she is brought into the world (and is NOT part of the mother’s body, but an autonomous living being within her), EVEN IF his/her mother is a child herself and the victim of a violent crime. Killing said child is just as wrong in this case as it would be in any other because there is no fundamental difference between a child of rape and a child of love, speaking from a legal standpoint—both are living human beings.
That being said, I concur there would be a tremendous emotional toll—moreso on a child—of conceiving a child that way, but again, looking objectively at the situation, nothing is different biologically.
Does anyone think there is the possibility of the Supreme Court giving back the power to individual states as was originally the case or is it the case that once they have decided they have the power to rule on the issue then it is extremely unlikely they will divest themselves of that power?
This whole issue is one that was made worse by the Supreme Court. Let the two sides fight it out at the state level where a consensus can be build for one view or the other.
They’re campaigning and fundraising off of it. That doesn’t look unhinged to me.
They’re campaigning and fundraising off of it. That doesn’t look unhinged to me.
democrats are ALWAYS unhinged about something, they react the way their media masters tell them to react.
There .... fixed.
Sound familiar? Seriously though, I believe the "abortion issue" is twisted and distorted by the left (big surprise). They have to do that to distract from the fact that their position is based on killing innocent babies. That is what it really comes down to. They want to be able to kill innocent babies with impunity.
Oh well. Wait ‘til they start getting arrested and perp-walked...
So Aussies worry about Alabama??? That’s like an American worrying about laws in the outback. Only we don’t worry about that kind of thing.
What crap! You go to ridiculous, constantly debunked lies to try to preserve your love of babies being butchered by scissors.
For now, Alabama and New York are on opposite ends of the Legal spectrum.
Folks have options.
Those who wish to access abortion as a cost free contraceptive can visit New York, or some other, State
Demonrats are unhinged, period.
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