One phrase stands out... "health of the mother".
In 1967, what Ronald Reagan meant by "health" was "genuine physical endangerment to the health of the mother". In 2007, what Liberals mean by "health" is "mental health, economic health, financial health, stress, unhappiness, inability to get a date on Friday Night... et cetera." They can -- and do -- drive a truck through the Exception made by Reagan in 1967.
Ron Paul seeks to overturn Roe vs. Wade and return Lawmaking over Abortion-murder to the proper Authority of the States.
The sad example of Ronald Reagan in 1967 simply demonstrates the need for absolute precision in Lawmaking -- "give 'em an inch, and they'll take a mile". We need to write State Law statutes to allow Abortion only to protect the LIFE of the Mother -- genuine physical endangerment of her continued physical life.
One phrase stands out... "health of the mother". In 1967, what Ronald Reagan meant by "health" was "genuine physical endangerment to the health of the mother". In 2007, what Liberals mean by "health" is "mental health, economic health, financial health, stress, unhappiness, inability to get a date on Friday Night... et cetera." They can -- and do -- drive a truck through the Exception made by Reagan in 1967.
Thanks for the quote.
Clearly, Ronal Reagan was a good pro life president. What is also clear, assuming that the cite you give is correct, is that it was a mistake for the Gov. Reagan to sign the '67 law.
Ron Paul seeks to overturn Roe vs. Wade and return Lawmaking over Abortion-murder to the proper Authority of the States.
Ron Paul is correct about Roe v. Wade and returning abortion(the killing of a human life) to the states.
From the state’s legislative website, I was able to determine that Reagan’s 1967 law remained unchanged until SB 1301 was introduced (and passed) in 2002. While I don’t know how to find a clean copy of the pre-existing legislation, the link below will take you to the mark-up version of the first proposed changes to the law. In other words, if you ignore the italics (new provisions) and accept all of the strike-out text (deleted provisions), you should be able to read the law as it was signed by Reagan.
http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/01-02/bill/sen/sb_1301-1350/sb_1301_bill_20020118_introduced.html
The legislative analysis of the proposed change provides a summary of the 2002 changes, as well as a history of the law and summary description of pre-existing law.
http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/01-02/bill/sen/sb_1301-1350/sb_1301_cfa_20020627_160952_asm_comm.html
This is a good timeline of California abortion law and court rulings through March 1998 (from Planned Parenthood). There were many changes to funding and related statutes, but apparently the core of the legislation was not changed:
http://www.ppacca.org/site/pp.asp?c=kuJYJeO4F&b=139490