Posted on 01/12/2009 7:49:01 AM PST by prismsinc
Obama emphatically promised more than a year ago that "The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That's the first thing that I'd do." Will Obama keep his word?
The Freedom of Choice Act, or FOCA, is a sweeping bill that would abolish all pro-life regulations across the nation, from parental notification laws to bans on federal funding of abortion. The Office of the General Counsel for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has identified 13 categories of pro-life laws that would be stampeded and nullified by FOCA. As far reaching as the decision of Roe v. Wade is into the states' jurisdictions and our lives, even it, for example, showed certain respects for state laws and limits on infringing regulations in the medical fields. FOCA shows no such restraints, but nails shut the coffin on pro-life choices and safeguards.
And why has Obama pledged his allegiance to pass FOCA? Not only because he has the most passionately liberal pro-choice record of nearly any politician, but, as he told a meeting of Planned Parenthood during his campaign, "it is time to turn the page" to a new day when pro-life views, laws and debate on abortion are passé. And if he and the Democratic majority have their way, America will have that new day, one in which hundreds of thousands of more abortions will be performed annually. I still think it is utterly hypocritical that a president and a political party that pride themselves on providing and protecting minorities don't include the unborn among them.
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I’m still not finding “regulate the health care industry and make abortion law” in the Constitution anywhere as a Federal job.
It's an implied right emanating from the solemn interpretations of legal scholars who seem to discover whatever hidden meaning they want in among the nuances and penumbras of Constitutional language - but are utterly baffled by the words "shall not be infringed".
I think those “scholars” need to Retire. With extreme prejudice if necessary.
Maximum BUMP to you Red.
I’ve heard this quoted a lot of times, but doesn’t such a bill have to be passed by Congress before O can sign it? How can this be his first act, then? I would think getting it thru Congress isn’t a slam-dunk. What am I missing?
allah - Satan - one in the same.
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