Posted on 03/09/2006 12:07:07 PM PST by NYer
HONOLULU, March 9, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Hawaii has passed legislation to allow abortion as an in-office medical procedure as well as waiving a mandatory 90-day residency period, prompting one commentator to dub the island state as the “baby killing center of the Pacific.”
“While high-profile media attention has been focused on South Dakota’s effort to outlaw abortion, Hawaii is quietly set to become the baby killing center of the Pacific,” said Judie Brown, president of American Life League.
House Bill 1242 is predicted to pass Hawaii's state house this week and then proceed to almost certain passage in the state senate. This bill allows abortions to be performed in any doctor's office; current law requires it to be done in a hospital. Also, this bill would remove the 90-day residency period for a woman obtaining an abortion in Hawaii. Although an effort to expand legal abortion to include viable as well as non-viable babies was defeated in the house, senators may try to re-insert that provision in the bill.
“The combined effect of all of these changes will be to make Hawaii one of the quickie-abortion capitals of the world,” said Brown. “One can envision mothers flying in from the continental United States, Japan and many other countries to have abortions performed in storefronts. Under this bill, baby killing facilities will be as numerous as pineapple stands as unscrupulous quacks seek to make money from the deaths of children.”
“We urge Hawaii’s state legislators to reject House Bill 1242 and any similar legislation,” Brown emphasized. “If this bill does make it through the legislature, it is critical for Gov. Linda Lingle to veto it. The eyes of the pro-life world are on Hawaii this week as people pray for the children there and put on hold any future Hawaiian vacation plans.”
Contact Governor Linda Lingle:
Executive Chambers
State Capitol
Honolulu, Hawai`i
96813
Phone: 808-586-0034
Fax: 808-586-0006
e-mail: http://www.hawaii.gov/gov/contact/email
Contact State Representatives:
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/house/members/members.as...
Contact State Senators:
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/senate/members/members.a...
Ping!
Well if that's what Hawaii wants....
This is what I don't understand...everyone here wants Roe v. Wade to be overturned...and go back to the States. The majority of states will keep it legal...what then happens to your mission?
They'll probably start collecting federal tax dollars to fly over pregnant women to the island state for the killings.
Just because we want it to go back to the states doesn't mean that we don't want to influence what the states choose to do.
Work to make it illegal in those states .... duh
How proud they must be... So progressive
Republican Governor Linda Lingle is pro-choice on abortion, but she supports parental notification and the partial-birth-abortion ban, so I have to assume she will veto this horrendous bill. I hope and pray that the pro-abortionists don't have enough votes in the legislature to override her veto.
Sink Hawaii.
sigh....it's not going to happen. You think NY or California or MA is going to outlaw abortion?
Maybe in a generation or two...there will be 10-15 states that will always allow abortion, unless the US Constitution is amended...
I just contacted her office and said if she doesnt do everything she can to stop this, including a veto, we will be cancelling plans to visit.
I think more than that.
You know, most of Hawaii's Pacific Island neighbours (Cook Islands, Tahiti, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Tokelau, Solomon Islands, etc) are deeply Bible-believing Christian and conservative that few will go there for abortions. The abortion operators will be disappointed in the empty beds.
I'm all for letting the states decide....if this is what Hawaii wants to do, well that's that. Abortion foes will have to make their case, state by state. Nothing wrong with that.
RE: California
Only if a couple of well placed earthquakes get rid of the morally debased portion of the state.
The valley and mountain residents would outlaw it today.
If you Hawaii real estate, sell it now because it won't be worth very much in a few years when judgement comes.
I do not believe your assumption is accurate.
Of course the "progressive" death lovers in CA and NY will keep it legal. Decent states with a majority of decent folks living in them will at least have the right to call murdering an unborn child a criminal act -- just like the 10th amendment set up state's rights to be in the first place.
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