Posted on 12/15/2015 11:51:42 AM PST by wagglebee
PHOENIX, Arizona, December 15, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – The American Civil Liberties Union is suing Arizona over a law banning abortion based on gender or race.
Arizona's Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act requires abortionists to verify that clients are not committing sex-selection abortions or race-selection abortions.
The ACLU's Alexa Kolbi-Molinas is actually arguing that the pro-life law – which protects babies from abortion over gender and race – "stigmatizes" women of color. She says the law is unconstitutional.
The ACLU lawsuit claims that the pro-life law "is a blatant violation of equal protection and the prohibition against state laws that discriminate on the basis of race."
Keeping in mind the growing number of immigrants from China – whose "one-child policy" has resulted in female gendercide on a massive scale – and statistics showing a strikingly disproportionate number of minority abortions, State Senator Rick Murphy (R) helped pass the pro-life law.
State Rep. Steve Montenegro (R-Litchfield Park) sponsored the law, explaining, "There are communities that the abortion industry targets." Additionally, Montenegro cited studies showing that Asian women often decide to abort after being told they are going to have a girl.
"We know that people from those countries and from those cultures are moving and immigrating in some reasonable numbers to the United States and to Arizona," State Sen. Murphy explained. "With that in mind, why in good conscience would we want to wait until the problem does develop and bad things are happening and then react, when we can be proactive and try to prevent the problem from happening in the first place?"
The law makes it a felony for an abortionist to kill a baby in the womb "knowing that the abortion is sought based on the sex or race of the child, or the race of a parent of that child."
Abortion supporter Miriam Yeung, executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, charged that the protective law "suggests that women of color cannot be trusted to make sound decisions about our own bodies."
Appellate Judge Richard Clifton said there is no evidence that the law is being applied in a discriminatory manner, targeting only certain groups.
Last year, U.S. District Court Judge David Campbell ruled that abortionists have no right to challenge the law because the law has not resulted in any individual injury. So the ACLU is arguing that women have been injured by not being about to abort their babies for being black or female.
Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, told LifeSiteNews, "Abortion for these reasons is the height of discrimination against an innocent baby, because of its gender or race."
"Planned Parenthood's founder Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist herself, and wanted to terminate babies of other races," Ms. Hawkins noted, "so is it any wonder why her organization today and their allies have no problem supporting abortion on demand for any reason, even if for a specific race or gender?"
Ms. Hawkins continued, "Abortion advocates want to bolster the bottom line and sell as many abortions as possible, regardless of the reasons why a woman chooses it."
The pro-life leader concluded, "Instead of offering alternatives, the abortion industry wants unfettered access to terminate the lives of pre-born babies for any reason whatsoever."
So, protecting children from racial discrimination is now considered racist.
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Their mantra of calling everything racist is losing its effect.
You know I fail to really understand these guys, you would think maybe they would see that they are trying to help the minorities not hurt them, so who is actually the bigot, what the hell.
Utterly bizarre.
How dare the State try to challenge the Sacrament of Abortion! /s
Then they have NO argument if scientists discover a gene linked to homosexuality or transgenderism tendencies and people start aborting it out of existence like Downs’ Syndrome.
I guess we shouldn’t be surprised.
The claim this law is directed against black women is ridiculous. Obviously the women who would want to abort a baby because it would be black are white women who have sex with black men.
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