NOW Calls Born Child A Fetus! (Feminazis lost in Congress--No mention yet on their web site!)

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[Recovering_Democrat]

The following is the only reference I could find on the NOW website to the recently passed "Born Alive Infants Act". This bill passed both chambers and is apparently on the way to the White House for the President's signature.

The law will state any child born alive MUST BE KEPT ALIVE, even if the child was born in the process of a botched abortion.

Notice from the NOW web site how a born child is referred to as a "fetus". Here is the text from their site:

Another Fetal Rights Bill May Surface

In the 106th Congress, Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) introduced the Born Alive Infants Protection Act of 2000 (S. 3127). Passed by the House (H.R. 4292, sponsored by Rep. Charles Canady, R-Fla.) and reported in the Senate, the bill would have amended the US Code, redefining a fetus at any stage of conception as a human being. This would grant a fetus full constitutional rights, clearly competing with and probably superceding the rights of the pregnant woman. The ramifications of such a law are very serious.

Sponsors of the act claimed it was necessary to grant full protection to newborns. In fact, the Born Alive Act would not affect current standards of newborn care, and some neonatologists testified that it would obligate doctors to provide increased care to newborns in cases where there is no hope of survival. Although the Born Alive Act did not pass the Senate, we expect renewed attempts to pass it in the 107th Congress, because because abortion rights opponents want to be able to use the issue as part of their "infanticide" rhetoric.

Action Needed: Contact your Senators and Representative to urge them to vote against any legislation that would define a fetus as a human being. This legislation is not constitutional, and would seriously weaken Roe v. Wade, while failing its stated purpose of increasing protection for newborns.

[Recovering_Democrat]

NOW thinks calling a murdered newborn a victim of infanticide is "rhetoric". Incredible.

[gcruse]

Incredible. They are as wrong as those who call a blastocyst a child.

[Hillary's Folly]

Trusting Planned Parenthood

[anniegetyourgun]

A few months ago Associated Press made this same mistake. Seems journalists and feminists alike didn't pass basic high school biology class.

[FITZ]

Amazing ----even if the child is "viable", isn't dependent on the mother's body, etc they want the child put to death. They are showing their true horrific selves more and more.

[A. Pole]

The law will state any child born alive MUST BE KEPT ALIVE, even if the child was born in the process of a botched abortion.

Good! Fie on feminists.

[kybabe]

Saw a great bumper sticker just today: IF IT ISN'T A BABY THEN YOU'RE NOT PREGNANT!

[happytobealive]

Thanks for the research.

These are very sad people, who need lots of prayers.

[baseballfanjm]

It's amazing how a few seconds can decide the fate of an unborn baby. These NOW feminists are so possesed about abortion that they refuse to see reason, and when presented with it they scream and say you are unsympathetic and opposing of women's rights.

[Ahban]

You must be one of those "Quick, KILL it before it becomes a human being." kinda people. Either that, or you don't believe that human life is sacred.

[Freee-dame]

These NOW feminists are so possesed about abortion that they refuse to see reason,

I think many of today's liberal pro-abortion elites in the media and academia see the whole abortion issue through an abortion experience filter. How many of them have been involved in an abortion of their own or that of their wife, girlfriend, sister, friend, etc.? They cannot ever let themselves even think of what they really did. To do so would be to admit that they killed their own child, something too horrible to contemplate. Prayer is one of the few things that might help.

[monkeyshine]

I don't understand something here. If a baby is born in a botched abortion at 4 months old, will the hospital be required to keep it alive on machines until it reaches maturity? And then what? What if it's required to live on machines all it's life? Would the parents have the right to decide whether to unplug the machines?

Right now, do parents have the right to unplug machines if their children have no known hope of recovery? How would this be any different?

Or are you suggesting that there is a possibility that a premature baby born at 4 months has a chance to actually become a fully developed person?

It's not that I favor abortion. I don't. I just don't understand the practical side of this particular issue.

[happytobealive]

I think many of today's liberal pro-abortion elites in the media and academia see the whole abortion issue through an abortion experience filter. How many of them have been involved in an abortion of their own or that of their wife, girlfriend, sister, friend, etc.?

Isn't this really the same for many people in our own lives? Isn't the difference betweent the celebs and us just a matter of degree.

[Hajman]

From St. John's News:

Springfield, Ill.—Isaac Henson will be home for Thanksgiving—almost a week after what would have been his actual birth date. Little Isaac is four months old and the youngest surviving preemie born at St. John’s Children’s Hospital.

Isaac was born July 18, at just 22 weeks (just over five months) of gestation.

There are other accounts of just as young (or a bit younger) surviving. 4 months isn't terribly too far away from these (especially with our increase of medical knowledge and technology). So yes, it's very quickly becomming possible that a 4 month old pre-born (or younger) would be able to survive outside of the womb.

-The Hajman-

[Hajman]

Right now, do parents have the right to unplug machines if their children have no known hope of recovery? How would this be any different?

How would this be different? The premature baby does have a hope of survival (I'd like to know what they have to 'recover' from).

-The Hajman-

[Jhoffa_]

The ramifications of such a law are very serious.

Yeah, and killing children should have been serious all this time. Thanks to you murderers, it hasn't been.

Wait a while for the legal challenges and such to pass away..

This thing is going to have some real teeth in the way a "fetus" is perceived by the public and in law.

[goldstategop]

NOW of course thinks any restrictions on abortion threaten the precious right of choice. Apparently pro-choice Rats don't agree with them which shows how out of touch they are with the American mainstream. Why shouldn't born infants be kept alive? Even Tommy Daschund's brigadoons see nothing wrong with it, which is why the Senate voted to pass the Born Alive Infants Act 97-0! Only NOW thinks that is "too extreme." For once, the feminazis are at odds with Congress and President, which is a delicious sight to savor.

[SpinyNorman]

Recently, in Massachusetts, a visible manifestation of NOW's devaluation of the newborn occurred: a student at UMass delivered a baby in the women's shower. She suffocated it, and put it in a trashbag. It was found and the "woman" is being prosecuted now (Official: UMass teen stuffed baby in trash. BostonHerald.com, http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/umas05042002.htm). Given that it is Massachusetts, I doubt that she will suffer much of a penalty, but I have still heard plenty of outrage.

This soulless woman could have given that baby up for adoption and continued her life, but no, the incessant rhetoric of the feminazis (and that is exactly what they are) has essentially brainwashed young women like this into cheapening the lives of babies, even perfectly healthy newborns to the level of worthlessness. Calling a baby a fetus is purely designed to render the live of the baby valueless, to be discarded at the whim of some selfish trash like this woman at UMass like feces.

I personally know childless couples that would have paid her an exorbitant sum for that baby, but noooooooo, that would inconvenience her, or perhaps she just thought that her so-called right to "choose" gave her carte blanche to say whether the baby lived or died.

I am surprise the feminazis aren't up there supporting her now. What a bunch of pigs! (my apologies to pigs everywhere)

[Jhoffa_]

Why shouldn't born infants be kept alive?

I don't think they are really at odds with Daschle and goons.

But I do think that this simple argument was too strong for them to oppose publically. There is no way to defend that and everyone knows it, daschle knows it.