Posted on 04/23/2007 4:12:44 PM PDT by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The pro-abortion Freedom of Choice Act was officially introduced on Thursday and the legislation would codify the Roe v. Wade decision into law. That would make legalized abortion the law of the land, but it also would overturn the pro-life laws state legislature have enacted.
The FOCA bill would "bar government, at any level, from interfering with a woman's fundamental right to choose to bear a child or to terminate a pregnancy."
Sen. Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, is behind the bill in the Senate and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, is the sponsor of the bill in the House.
"We can no longer rely on the Supreme Court to protect a woman's constitutional right to choose," Nadler said in introducing the bill and responding to the high court's decision to uphold a national ban on partial-birth abortions.
Democrats control both chambers and the measure will likely get a hearing in both but there are likely enough votes to stop the bill, especially in the Senate where any senator can use a filibuster to force a 60-vote majority to cut off debate.
Boxer said she would start with the 52 senators, including eight Republicans, who voted in 2003 to affirm the principles of Roe v. Wade.
However, Sen. Diane Feinstein admitted to the Associated Press that abortion activists likely don't have the votes to move it forward.
"We've been losing fight after fight after fight," she said.
Sen. Diane Feinstein admitted to the Associated Press that abortion activists likely don't have the votes to move it forward.
"We've been losing fight after fight after fight," she said.
Following the high court's decision, leading abortion advocates said they would put the bill back on the table.
"So how are we going to defeat this ban now that Bush's appointees upheld it? Simple," NARAL's president Nancy Keenan explained in an email to her supporters that LifeNews.com obtained.
"We're starting an all-out campaign to support the Freedom of Choice Act. Here's how it starts: The Freedom of Choice Act is legislation that would codify Roe v. Wade into law, and guarantee the right to choose for generations to come," she said.
The Feminist Majority Foundation agreed and emailed its donors saying "We must work to pass the Freedom of Choice Act, which will codify Roe so that it cannot be further assaulted."
Abortion advocates first promoted the Freedom of Choice Act during the early part of the Clinton administration but gave up on it after Republicans took control of Congress because most of them were staunchly pro-life.
It’s not going to get that far, wagglebee. Even DiFi recognizes that.
The Wadler cannot find the "right to choose" ANYWHERE in the U.S. Constitution, so the Liberals are going to try to amend the Constitution via legislation? HA!
As Mike Rowe would say, "I can smell it now....."
I think they’re concerned that the Chicoms are out-aborting them.
There isn’t going to be a bill. The whole point of having the Supreme Court do the dirty deed was that they didn’t have to touch it. This legislation has no chance of being enacted and it won’t get to the president, no matter who it is.
Don’t know about anyone else, but from abortion and the war, to gay rights and the second amendment, it seems like Dems are over-playing their hand big time recently - exposing a left-wing agenda to middle-America in ways that will prove hard to obfuscate come next election cycle.
Seems all the left has to offer are these Dog and Pony shows for their contributors.
We just have to sit back and let them act. They are digging there own graves with their behaviour since taking over and I LOVE IT. I would like the republican congress critters to vote with the democrats and move this thing to the floor for a real vote. Can they do that? Just put em all on record and watch em fry next election!! Just like gun control this is a big loser for them, although they havent quite figured it out yet.
"Our nation-wide policy of abortion on demand through all nine months of pregnancy was neither voted for by our people, nor enacted by our legislators--not a single state had such unrestricted abortion before the Supreme Court decreed it to be national policy in 1973. [It was] an act of raw judicial power"...
"Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. Nowhere do the plain words of the Constitution even hint at a "right" so sweeping as to permit abortion up to the time the child is ready to be born."
"We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life--the unborn--without diminishing the value of all human life."
"Abraham Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should therefore be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion or infanticide. My Administration is dedicated to the preservation of America as a free land, and there is no cause more important for preserving that freedom than affirming the transcendent right to life of all human beings, the right without which no other rights have any meaning."
~~~ President Ronald Reagan : "Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation", 1983
I’m happy to see this too. Let everyone know what the Democrats stand for, and then go and vote. What more can we ask for than clarity from our elected officials and candidates for office?
No-brainer veto for Bush. Rats don’t have the override votes.
Pelosi thinks she’s sec. of state.
Reid thinks he’s commander in chief.
No surprise DIMS think they can trump SCOTUS.
Super posting,thanks !!!
Hell, Rudy would say it’s “good law” and sign it.
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Why not call it the “Dred Scott extension act of 2007”.
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Yep, exactly. The sooner the abortion issue is contrasted, the better off the pro-life side will be. I for one am sick and tired of the baby-killer's hiding behind "choice." If you support abortion, then call yourselves pro-abortionists then.
This issue must be settled by swaying hearts and informing minds of citizens that the fetus is indeed a human life, and I think that the trend in this direction is clear. We can see manifestations of abortion advocates’ eroding confidence in the fiction they have been peddling, such as their reaction to proposals that require a woman seeking an abortion to have some instruction, a waiting period, or horror of horrors, to actually have to see the ultrasound image of the contents of her womb.
“..Sen. Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, is behind the bill in the Senate..”
No surprise.
Note to self: Contribute $$ to her opponent next time she runs.
Government is evil. Murder is on the protracted list of their many sins. The greatest atrocities in history were perpetrated by governments. Let these hoes vote for this bill and then we’ll have their names.
I have no problem with this, provided the woman in question was never at one point herself subject to birth or termination. Otherwise, one who kills forfeits his/her own right to life by default.
BTW is it not intersting that one tiny little nick in this horrid Roe decision sends the hornets' nest into full fury. These spoiled brats have had just about every decision go their way, and are too wimpy to take one little defeat like a man.
... to the extent that we don't turn those "generations to come" into sewage, that is.
The brutal irony of someone touting the "right" to abortion for their posterity is just really rich. She wants to guarantee the "right to choose" for people to whom she won't guarantee the right to take their first breath!
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