Posted on 04/21/2010 10:05:24 AM PDT by NYer
Nebraska heats this topic up again. Embarrassed about being the late-term abortion capital of the United States, Nebraska changed the law:
Can an unborn child feel pain?
That question will dominate the abortion debate in America for the next several years thanks to Gov. Dave Heineman of Nebraska. Last week, Heineman signed the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act into law, banning abortions in Nebraska at and after 20 weeks based on growing scientific evidence that an unborn child at that age can feel pain.
The legislation was enacted as a defensive measure. After the murder of late-term abortionist George Tiller, a physician named LeRoy Carhart declared his intention to carry on Tiller's work at his Bellevue, Neb., clinic. State legislators did not want Nebraska to become the country's late-term abortion capital -- so they voted 44-5 to stop him.
The new law will probably spark a Supreme Court showdown, because it directly challenges one of the key tenets of Roe v. Wade -- that "viability" (the point at which an unborn child can survive outside the womb, generally held to be at 22 to 24 weeks) is the threshold at which states can ban abortion. In defending the law, Nebraska will ask the high court to take into account scientific research since Roe and push the legal threshold back further.
“So it may be that your state decides to be pro choice...or maybe pro life....Who knows? It may also be that if your state goes pro life and the state next to you goes pro choice, then women will just travel to that state for the abortion.
Neither the pro lifers or choice side will like it but that is how laws are made in a democracy.”
Thanks for the respectful debate.
Then don’t post your bullsh^t lies and I won’t have to clean your clock - just all all the other posters here have. That’s about the best way to avoid each other. Like many others here, I’m smarter than you - and we don’t suffer fools here.
“Then dont post your bullsh^t lies and I wont have to clean your clock - just all all the other posters here have. Thats about the best way to avoid each other. Like many others here, Im smarter than you - and we dont suffer fools here.”
Wow....I’m so impressed.
I have known conservatives, and avoth, you are no conservative.
Yawn. Heard that line before.
Think the pro-choice movement is going to roll over and die?
The pro-life attitudes of the younger generation shows us that yes, in fact, the pro-abort crowd is going to roll over and die. I want to thank you for the back-up here too, sir!
You can call youself a conservative all you want...your a CIN....Conservative in Name Only. Don’t tell me your Catholic too.
Go back to the kiddie pool, sonny.
like I would take any advice from someone like you.
Get real.
“You can call youself a conservative all you want...your a CIN....Conservative in Name Only. Dont tell me your Catholic too.”
I guess I’m pretty lucky that I don’t give a d@mn what you think.
Fine - then shut up and get lost.
A snippet from your first post on this thread....
“theyre backfiring and giving our enemies ammunition to use against us?”
“Our enemies”...your not on the conservative side in the slightest, you are the enemy to Pro-Life.
Avoth -- abortion kills an unborn child.
That means that it's just different from issues like marijuana usage or gambling or prostitution or any other issue which we might find "morally reprehensible", but on which Prohibition fails -- well, as badly as Prohibition usually fails, when both parties are voluntarily seeking to engage in a mutually-desired (albeit immoral), non-violent transaction.
Marijuana doesn't kill anyone, though it may deaden the soul. And the same could be said for the other "personal vices" I've mentioned, as well.
But with Abortion, killing someone is the whole point of the operation!
If a human being doesn't get killed, the abortion didn't get done.
IBTZ
"...Her destructive thoughts were like starving rabid animals, hounding, scratching, and gnawing at her conscience. They left her feeling bewildered, feeling crazy, and ashamed. She desperately yearned to silence these dangerous beasts in her mind."
Take your own advice.
“Our enemies...your not on the conservative side in the slightest, you are the enemy to Pro-Life.”
Thanks. I was having trouble getting to sleep and you’ve bored me.
I have no issue with anything you’ve written. If I read you correctly, your issue with my post is that you found the term “morally reprehensible” to be a poor choice of words to describe the behavior of the pro-choice crowd. And I don’t have a problem with that either.
Obviously, the point I was trying to make was lost.
Keep coming around with your tripe and keep getting your pathetic head handed to you, if you like. It can be fun for us squashing the stupid.
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