Posted on 06/03/2003 4:36:37 AM PDT by Hugenot
Newsweek's cover story on Fetal Rights for the June 9 issue is already causing quite a stir among abortion supporters.
A Newsweek Poll shows that 46% of Americans believe that life begins at conception, while an additional 12% believes that it begins at implantation. Only 11% believe that life begins at birth, which means that 89% of Americans would acknowledge that the present abortion laws allow for at least some legalization of murder.
The Laci Peterson story has popularized the question of fetal rights, since Scott Peterson has been charged with two murders, and the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which has passed the House, is being referred to as the Laci and Conner Law.
The law would inflict penalties on those who harm "a child in utero" while committing a federal crime. While the bill is expected to pass the Senate, defenders argue that it will not impact abortion because the law protects children that are wanted by the mother.
Nevertheless, if we are acknowledging that the child in the womb is indeed a human being with rights, it's only a matter of time before the arbitrary distinction of wanted/unwanted crumbles.
Planned Parenthood president Gloria Feldt is quoted in Newsweek as complaining that, “If they are able to make fetuses people in law with the same standing as women and men, then Roe will be moot."
Meanwhile, Ken Connor, president of the antiabortion Family Research Council argues that, “It's not OK for the husband to kill his wife's child, but it's OK for the mother [to have an abortion]?”
National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League President Kate Michelman denounced the Laci and Conner Law as a "part of a larger strategy to establish the embryo with separate distinct rights equal to if not greater than the woman."
Try as they will, abortion supporters cannot get around a simple fact. Once society says that it's acceptable to take an innocent human life, all human life loses its sacredness.
Those who once said "I don't care if you have an abortion" are now coming forward saying "abortion is wrong for the same reason I would not have one...I would not murder a baby" and no one has a right to "murder a baby" at any stage of life.
As a related aside, I was watching the tv show "Everwood" and the liberal hero was actually refusing to do the requested abortion (leaving it to the conservative doctor who was forced to do it for a variety of reasons not important here), and to justify his refusal, he said "I may not know when life begins, but I sure know when it ends."
Best damn line I ever heard on a television show.
I wasn't aware the House already passed it. Guess I need to watch more C-SPAN and less FNC.
And the women you have HAD abortions - their votes are in jeopardy also because they are coming to the realization that they made a horrible mistake in judgment. And their voices are becoming more public.
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A January poll on Free Republic ended with 80% in favor of overturning Roe v Wade. That is great and makes me proud to be a Freeper.
I propose that if you have not seen the 9-minute documentary Hard Truth, then you might not fully appreciate the magnitude of what has happened 42+ MILLION times since Roe v Wade in 1973. That is the number of reported surgical abortions since 1973 in the US alone.
These important 9 minutes are worth more than a million words about the subject.
Go to Abortion Videos , at the NATIONAL AMERICAN HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL. Simply click “HERE” where it says: “You may view it online HERE”. I’d also ask for you to go back to the home page, stay a while and read about the facts.
The file size is about 5mb, so if you don’t have broadband you’ll have to be patient. You might want to download it to your hard drive cause it will breakup if streaming from a slow connection. Also be sure to have your speakers on.
If you are one who thinks abortion is “OK”, or are one who is “on the fence” then this film is ESPECIALLY for you.
From the website: “It is perhaps the most powerful film ever produced on abortion. Actual footage of living, in-utero children and their aborted peers tell the hard truth about abortion in ways "just words" never will. Hard Truth packs such unprecedented power, viewers can scarcely watch without being profoundly affected. In total, the film is only nine minutes long, and except for the introduction, there is no narration.”
Again, go to Abortion Videos , at the NATIONAL AMERICAN HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL. Simply click “HERE” where it says: “You may view it online HERE”
Planned Parenthood president Gloria Feldt is quoted in Newsweek as complaining that, “If they are able to make fetuses people in law with the same standing as women and men, then Roe will be moot." The Roe decision has always been an illogical fiat ruling but has been reaffirmed many times with cases such as Doe and Casey v PP'hood of Pennsylvania. What Gloria Feldt and her fellow ghouls fear is that America will awaken to discover these anti-fetus freaks have been defending an abortion holocaust in the name of enlightened social engineering.
National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League President Kate Michelman denounced the Laci and Conner Law as a "part of a larger strategy to establish the embryo with separate distinct rights equal to if not greater than the woman." ms Michelman doesn't want to relinquish her high position of moral arbiter by having individual human lives equal before the law. She is more than happy to have the serial killer rites remain the high ritual of her sect and will lie, cheat, dissemble, and slander, to defend the indefensible slaughter of alive pre-born individual human beings. Think what ghouls like Michelman, Feldt, and their supporters (like tpaine) give up if the rite of unborn child slaughter is exposed as paradoxical to the founding principles of this nation ... Life will again be more important than Liberty, protecting Life will be more important than individual pursuit of Happiness and property. It is no accidsent that the abortion champions made such a big deal out of a fetus being the property of the woman in whose body the little one was sequestered. Dehumanizing the unborn into property instantly removed a potential sympathy for their endangered lives, shifting the focus to the Liberty and Property rights of women, the 'disenfranchised', don'tcha know! The irony is, hiring a serial killer to arbitrarily snuff the unborn is the most disenfranchising act imaginable, even more so than slavery, yet black women have bought into the lies to such an extent that they kill more of their babies per capita than any other racial group!
Everwood is one of my daughter's weekly rituals, so I saw that episode too. I was really upset that the Catholic doctor violated his conscience and ended up killing the baby because of some stupid promise he's made to his father, who apparently had been the previous town baby butcher. His mother was the shrill NOW shrew spewing forth the status quo feminonsense. The young woman in question was merely another "I'm just not (insert whine) ready to have a baby!" wealthy, spoiled, and afraid to stand up to her father who didn't want the embarrassment of an OOW grandchild. As I recall, they were careful to keep it from the girl's mother for fear she'd talk the girl out of killing the baby--imagine that!
Gave me some good dialogue fodder with my daughter, though. Since I knew what was going to occur in the storyline, I told her the price of watching it was a conversation on the subject of pregnancy and abortion. Made her stick to the agreement, too.
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I would really like to know how they define 'life'. An amoeba is life. Algae is life. What do you call something that's not life?
I would really like to know how they define 'life'. An amoeba is life. Algae is life. What do you call something that's not life?
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