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...
Totally agree, and yank all tax-exempt statuses for pro-abortion groups and patients who have abortions. Make the scumbags pay for it themselves.
Maybe they should put in a drive-through. Serve light refreshments ... give out plastic toys ... hook up with a dry cleaner or a car wash. This IS the age of multi-tasking, after all.
I remember when it was exactly that way. I'm not sure why returning to it would be "progress".
But you just don't want abortions to be very hard to get, You want them completely outlawed, right?
Each state will ultimately decide if abortion should be legal in that state, and under what circumstances. Hawaii has taken the opposite position of South Dakota. While I may disagree with Hawaii, this will be the end result of overturning Roe. And, honestly, while I applaud what South Dakota did, I'm not surprised that a state has acted to furhter liberalize. In economic terms it's a marketplace, and Hawaii is capturing a segment of the market.
“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.”
I can understand being upset about what Hawaii's doing, but this kind of over-the-top rhetoric is pitiful.
Maybe dead babies will become the number one cash crop in Hawaii.
But they probably see it as a way to increase tourism. Remember the abortion flights to NYC in the 1970's? Women would tell their parents they were going to the city for friends for a few days to sightsee. They'd get there, get an abortion, take in a few shows and come home. Even today many of NYC's abortions are on women "visiting" the city.
ditto on that one.
Pure histrionics.
Hawaii gets tons of tourists from Japan--what are abortion laws like in Japan?
Ah, you nailed us again, Hildy. Deep in our hearts, we really want to take all the women who have abortions to a prison just like Abu Ghraib and torture and humiliate them. The ones that don't do the job for us by bleeding to death in a back alley, that is.
If they do pass this , and a sunami washes the island away later ... would it be unpc to make a connection...
You always give yourself away as the type of person you are.
Japan has had legal abortion since 1948; its abortion rate tends to be high, since ironically, abortion can be easier to get than contraception.
I've seen similar sentiments on FR, now that you mention it. :-\
What a sweet compliment! Guess it takes one to know one.
That's why I want a constitutional amendment.
No judicial activism. No out of state murders.
Our federal government prosecutes those who engage in sex with minors under 18 (regardless of the age of consent in your home state) in other countries as an effort to clam down on sexual tourism. I would rank infanticide as an even more horrific crime.
Residency is a very fuzzy thing in the U.S. One can easily be a legal resident of more than one state at the same time, since so many factors are used to determine residency for things like taxes, voter registration, and public school access -- add up all the relevant laws and it's VERY easy to be a legal resident of more than one state, whether you want to be or not. I pay resident taxes in two states, and happily take advantage of in-state tuition rates in one, and better 2A rights and car insurance rates in the other (the car actually does spend 98% of its time in the state where it's registered and insured) -- I technically could file as a non-resident in one of those states, but that would cost me more in both state taxes (due to the effects of interstate offset provisions) and federal taxes (because I couldn't claim the residential mortgage deduction on my main home and vacation home, in a state where I file non-resident taxes).
Having a residency requirement for any medical procedure would just turn into an expensive mess of legal challenges. No doctor that I've ever seen for anything would have any reason to examine my state residency status, nor am I interested in having doctors collecting information about where I own and rent homes, where my car is insured, where I pay taxes, etc. If a doctor turns somebody away because s/he isn't sure about their residency status, the patient could subsequently sue and win big (in the case of abortion, think child support for 18 years, plus a bunch of damages). If a doctor provides an abortion to someone with fuzzy residency status, s/he'll end up with the anti-abortion lobby pushing local prosecutors to go after him/her.
Sure is. There are plenty of cheaper places to fly to and stay a night or two in, than Hawaii, where legal abortions are readily available.
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