Posted on 10/18/2006 8:10:26 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
"Have you ever felt like a vapor; a mere mist dissolving in the life surrounding you? Empty? Invisible? No real substance, just a vapor? A vapor is how my abortion left me."
— Kayla, to the House State Affairs Committee, 2/8/06
"After sitting though waiting rooms and what not, I had changed my mind. This was not for me. This was not what I wanted to do. I told the nurse there that I do not want to have an abortion. She proceeded walking me towards the procedure room, and told me, let's talk to the doctor. They sat me down in a chair. As they did, she was sticking me with in the arm with a needle, and when I woke up, I had had an abortion. Before I left there, a nurse then asked me if there was anything she could get for me. I said is it done. She told me yes that it was. I said, 'well yes ma'am, you can get me a gun.' I could not bear to walk out of there."
— Carrie, a South Dakota mother, to the Senate State Affairs Committee, 2/17/06
"I don't know where I would be without her, and I am very thankful I have her in my life."
— Megan, about her daughter, conceived after a rape, and born after choosing life, to the Senate State Affairs Committee, 2/17/06
http://voteyesforlife.com/
Alan Keyes, a former Reagan administration official and 2000 Republican presidential candidate, has weighed in on the side of affirming the ban, noting that the original decision that created a federal "right" to abortion itself notes the possibility of its own downfall.
That 1973 opinion by Justice Harry Blackmun said the core of the original argument was whether a baby unborn is a "person" or not. If such a designation is achieved, Blackmun noted, the "right" to abortion collapses because "the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the Amendment."
What Blackmun failed to acknowledge, Keyes writes, is that the U.S. Constitution specifically notes that the final and ultimate objective of the people in establishing the Constitution is "to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity."
"The word 'posterity' in both general and legal parlance, includes reference to those who will come after us, those who have not yet been conceived, much less born," Keyes noted.
"This means that in its very statement of purpose, the Constitution acknowledges the standard of God's will, and requires an interpretation that prefers, in our use of liberty, results that secure His favor," he wrote.
"The governor and Legislature of South Dakota have acted courageously on this obligation. Even if the courts decide against them, we the people should remember that the final judgment is our responsibility," he said.
Where the heck do they get these names?
Planned Parenthood = no parenthood.
Reproductive Health = abortion.
Healthy families = dead babies.
George Orwell, you are being paged.
ping...
Tell that to the babies whose lives will be saved.
It's time to drop arguments of expediency.
That's warped.
Ungood, ain't it.
AMEN!!!!!!!!
Are any FReepers heading out to SD?
I do the March 4 Life in DC, but I regret I didn't make time for a trip to SD to counter any NARAL/PP scum that migh converge their in the next 2 - 3 weeks.
I know a few who are working hard there.
But whoever has the prolife ping list needs to use it.
thanks for the ping.
This law has yet to stop a single abortion in South Dakota and given the almost certain immediate appeal if it does pass it is unlikely that it will stop any future abortions in South Dakota until a definitive ruling is made in federal court.
It would have been far better to craft an incremental narrowing of allowed abortions to the point where it becomes financially infeasible to continue to provide them. These laws would have a likelihood of standing in the courts. This law only further polarizes South Dakotans and makes it less likely that they might support incremental narrowing of allowed abortions in the event this law fails.
Unreal.
I think you're dead wrong.
From the standpoint of the person being killed, incrementalism is a really bad idea when it comes to life and death issues.
Appeal? The representatives of the people, and now the people themselves, will have spoken.
Do you think the courts are "a higher authority"?
Lawmakers in the plains state did their homework before approving the law, researching and attaching to the legislation a 72-page report with interviews from dozens of life experts, documentation of medical technology, the effects of abortion on America and vast resources of other information.
That means if the ban would end up in a court challenge, that information would be entered into the court record, since it was attached to the original legislation.
Fact is, the forces of death have pursued this course because they really don't want to have to challenge this very well crafted bill in the courts.
This bill was and is brilliantly written and executed.
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