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...
Is it illegal (or just plain third-wordish) in countries in the Far East? Maybe the reason to eliminate the residency requirement has more to do with Pacific Island visitors than with US residents on the mainland.
Just trying to think what would motivate Hawaii to do thi$.
Maybe, but if you sell your Hawaiin real estate now....you are going to be very, very wealthy.
You just know someone, somewhere is going to complain that this is so unfair because only rich women can afford to fly to Hawaii for an abortion. I mean, why shouldn't a poor woman have the luxury of killing her baby in a tropical paradise too, huh?? We should amend the welfare laws so that federal funds are available to any woman who wants a vacation with her abortion.
/sarc
OK...keep dreaming.
There will always be at least one State with legal abortions. The middle to upper-class folks will want someplace to send their daughters on "vacation". Europe will suffice for the rich and super rich.
Solution:
Wait until the coming economic collapse and go after the abortion racketeers in the ensuing bedlam.
They could have ceremonial "Toss the baby in the volcano" tours too.
I doubt Maryland will ever ban abortion and between cheap airfare (i.e. Southwest) and its position on border between North and South, most women of reasonable means will still be able to get an abortion. Not to mention places like New York, California, Mass., Hawaii, etc.
"The majority of states will keep it legal...what then happens to your mission?
Work to make it illegal in those states .... duh"
Exactly. Most states(midwestern, southern and mountain west) will keep it legal but put tough restrictions on it that aren't allowed now. Some states(coastal blue states) will keep it free and easy but they'll be in the minority.
I'd be willing to bet that when the issue goes back to the states we'll see an immediate 30-40% drop in the number of abortions done annually. That's a drop of 300,00-400,000 per year nationwide.Hawaii doesn't really worry me because it's too expensive for most to have access to.
Then you go to work on the rest in the state legislatures of the abortion on demand states and slowly but surely you'll see a tightening of the rules. It'll certainly be an easier task that waiting on the Supreme Court to change.That's why the abortion promoters are so frightened by what's going on now. they know that once the question is sent back to the states it's only a matter of time until abortion becomes a rarity.
I think Europe has more restrictive abortion laws than we do...
Anyways abortion won't be "outlawed" in the US. Massachusetts (heh) has it in their constitution!!
My mom's house there appreciated from 600K to 900K in the past 12 months. I've been looking around Seattle to buy the past year and its been a nightmare, but Hawaii real estate right now is in a whole other universe.
Caveat murderor.
####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?####
Here are a few points:
A) Roe v. Wade is flat-out unconstitutional. It should be overturned as a matter of principle even if it doesn't result in a single abortion being halted.
B) Even if abortion remains legal in many states, those of us in conservative states will be able to wash the blood off our hands by seeking bans in our own states. At the very least it will make life harder for abortionists. They'll have to congregate in the "death states", and even then they'll never know when that state might see a change in values that forces them to pack up and move elsewhere.
C) Pro-lifers are in this for the long haul. We understand that there are regions where peoples' morals are lower, where a "gutter morality" prevails. But over time that will change. Younger people are more pro-life than their elders. As time passes, even states like New York and California can become pro-life. For example, in the referendum on parental notification last year in California, the pro-life side lost by a few points, but among the rapidly growing Hispanic population, we won.
This site gives one a reason to ponder the enormity of the obscenity that the current Roe vs. Wade wrought.
All should remember that Hawaii was the first state to legalize abortion under a Catholic governor and Catholic legislative committee chair and is well into 40 years of Dimocrap control.
Hawaii's governor is Republican but barely.
Hawaii politics was heavily influenced by Asian beliefs in the past which did not consider abortion something to be prohibited. Today, Hawaii is infested with leftists. So the moral decline (by Judeo-Christian standards) in Hawaii, fed by a heavy influx of relocated left-coast liberals and communists in the university system, has hit the greased skids.
What if Hawaii wanted to legalize slavery, or infanticide?
I don't know why you bother...
;)
Slavery is banned by the U.S. Constitution. Infants are persons also protected by the Constitution. The Supreme Court or a Constitional Amendment would have to clarify whether the unborn are person subject to the protection of our laws. Currently we recognize a distinction between the born and the unborn. Even in S.D. the penalty for abortion is 5 years for the doctor, and none for the mother who cannot be prosecuted. A woman who has an abortion performed on her the day before her due date cannot be charged; a mother who has a doctor kill her day old newborn can be charged with murder.
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