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Congressional Hearing on Abortion Focuses on Roe v. Wade, Helping Women
LifeNews.com ^ | March 3, 2006 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 03/04/2006 11:14:10 AM PST by cpforlife.org

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A Congressional subcommittee held a hearing on abortion on Thursday and focused on the misconceptions some people have about the legality of abortion if Roe v. Wade is ever overturned. It also featured advocates who help women in various unplanned pregnancy situations. Rep. Steve Chabot, chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, oversaw the hearings.

Chabot said he wanted to set the record straight about abortion after Roe is overturned someday.

He indicated that the assumption that abortion would be illegal nationwide is wrong. Instead, states would be free, like they were before Roe, to make abortion illegal if they desired.

"The public thinks, for the most part, that if Roe versus Wade was struck down, abortion would be illegal. That's not the case," he said. "It would go back to the states and people would have more of a voice in it."

According to a Cincinnati Enquirer report, Chabot said that having two new justices on the Supreme Court and the high court agreeing to hear a case later this year on partial-birth abortions meant the abortion debate was alive and well.

Chabot helped write the partial-birth abortion ban that President Bush signed into law.

Cinny Roy, who runs two pregnancy centers in Cincinnati, told the committee that many people do not recognize the years of emotional and psychological trauma abortion causes many women.

She knows what she's talking about.

Roy had an abortion and has spent the better part of two decades trying to cope with the whirlwind of negative emotions she's battled since then.

In 1996, she finally told someone about her abortion and joined a recovery group that helped her have the courage to help other women avoid abortions.

"My life has not been the same since," Roy said, according to the Enquirer.


TOPICS: Activism; Moral Issues
KEYWORDS: 109th; abortion; chabot; murder; prolife; roevwade
Life begins at conception—NOT birth.
Birth is one day in the life of a person who is already nine months old.

1 posted on 03/04/2006 11:14:14 AM PST by cpforlife.org
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To: MHGinTN; Coleus; nickcarraway; narses; Mr. Silverback; Canticle_of_Deborah; ...
Pro-Life PING

Please FreepMail me if you want on or off my Pro-Life Ping List.

2 posted on 03/04/2006 11:15:03 AM PST by cpforlife.org (A Catholic Respect Life Curriculum is available at www.KnightsForLife.org)
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To: Admin Moderator

could you please move this thread to news/activism. I goofed and posted in Religion. Thanks.


3 posted on 03/04/2006 11:16:40 AM PST by cpforlife.org (A Catholic Respect Life Curriculum is available at www.KnightsForLife.org)
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To: cpforlife.org

Women are not the only gender needing recovery from the horrific consequences of buying into the mountain of (evil) lies regarding the alive unborn children 'flushed' from our lives. May God have mercy upon us and open our hearts and minds to the truth.


4 posted on 03/04/2006 9:25:51 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: cpforlife.org; 4lifeandliberty; AbsoluteGrace; afraidfortherepublic; Alamo-Girl; anniegetyourgun; ..

Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping!

Please FReepmail me if you would like to be added to, or removed from, the Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping list...

5 posted on 03/06/2006 9:56:37 AM PST by cgk (I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
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To: cpforlife.org

What about helping the babies?????????????????????


6 posted on 03/06/2006 10:03:36 AM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: cgk

Thanks for the ping!


7 posted on 03/06/2006 10:41:44 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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8 posted on 03/07/2006 7:28:47 PM PST by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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