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Title: Abortion “Without Government Interference”
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URL Source: http://jbs.org/index.php/jbs-news-f ... ithout-government-interference
Published: Nov 11, 2008
Author: Ann Shibler
Post Date: 2008-11-14 17:52:42 by farmfriend
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Views: 128
Comments: 9
Written by Ann Shibler The Freedom of Choice Act contains language advocating the termination of a pregnancy “without government interference.” That’s a phrase, along with the term “privacy” that we’re not used to associating with the heavy hand of government these days. Unfortunately, we are getting used to the intrusion and restrictions of big government in our personal lives on a daily basis. But when it comes to abortion and the murdering of innocents, the federal government is willing to turn a blind eye under the guise of freedom of choice, while with the other eye they limit how much toothpaste and shampoo we can take on an airplane. Proponents of the deceptively titled Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) would have us believe that the purpose of the bill is to codify Roe. v. Wade. Such is not the case. There is no attempt, however, to hide the true intent of FOCA, H.R. 1964 in the House and S. 1173 in the Senate, in any ambiguous terminology. Feeling threats to Roe. v. Wade, as some states try to limit and regulate abortion, the pro-abortion league is going all out to effectively end any opposition to abortion, legally and finally. FOCA will specifically change the present policy in the United States, guaranteeing that surgical and medical abortions be a fundamental right. It would invalidate any “statute, ordinance, regulation, administrative order, decision, policy, practice, or other action” of any federal, state, or local government or governmental official, that would “deny or interfere with a woman’s right to choose.” This is broad language, indeed. But it gets even broader. FOCA will apply “to every Federal, State, and local statute, ordinance, regulation, administrative order, decision, policy, practice, or other action enacted, adopted, or implemented before, on, or after the date of enactment.” In essence it usurps the rights of the states to decide for themselves any restrictions or limitations on abortion. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who introduced the bill in the Senate, rightly summed it up saying, “FOCA will supersede all other laws.” And the bill has powerful supporters. According to a June report carried by CNSNews, in July 2007 during a speech to the Planned Parenthood action fund, President-Elect Obama said: "Well, the first thing I'd do as president is, is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.... That's the first thing I'd do." The far-reaching provisions in the bill will invalidate and nullify the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, the Hyde Amendment, informed consent laws, waiting periods, parental notification laws, limits on public funding for elective abortions (American taxpayers, like it or not, will foot the bill for abortions and the abortion industry), and health and safety regulations for the abortion clinics themselves. The most egregious provisions of the bill would allow the killing of technically full-term babies for “health” reasons, and would remove legal protections for religiously-affiliated hospitals and the doctors and nurses who staff them. Personally, the most inexplicable passage in the FOCA bill is found in Section 2, Number 7: What? Getting an abortion means one is only then equally participating in society? FOCA will impose the immorality of abortion and utter disregard for life on an entire nation and people. It is not about “reproductive freedom;” that is nothing but a euphemism for abortion. FOCA is about promoting abortion, not reducing abortions.
Abortion “Without Government Interference”
Tuesday, 11 November 2008 15:10 The Roe v. Wade decision also expanded the opportunities for women to participate equally in society. In 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey (505 U.S. 833), the Supreme Court observed that '[t]he ability of women to participate equally in the economic and social life of the Nation has been facilitated by their ability to control their reproductive lives.'
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#1. To: farmfriend (#0)
Beyond Belief Bump
Nothing Is Beyond Belief Anymore Bump Our .gov never met an innocent they didnt want to murder.
But not surprising.
Yes, the plan is to whack about eighty percent of us. Interesting times. We have to do whatever we can to resist and survive.
I'm not innocent!
I guess that there's always that fall-back defense. I'll use it.
How about we just consider anyone in favor of abortion a potential murderer and get rid of them. It would be a much better country if those evil folks weren't around to kill anymore babies.
LOL Where is pre-crime when we need them!
LOL Where is pre-crime when we need them! The baby killers are radicals for killing babies. It is time for the good guys to out radical them.
bbb
#2. To: lodwick (#1)
#3. To: lodwick (#1)
Beyond Belief
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. —Thomas Jefferson, 1802
#4. To: farmfriend, PSUSA, all (#3)
#5. To: PSUSA, lodwick (#2)
Our .gov never met an innocent they didnt want to murder.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. —Thomas Jefferson, 1802
#6. To: farmfriend, non-innocents here (#5)
I'm not innocent!
#7. To: farmfriend (#0)
#8. To: Old Friend (#7)
How about we just consider anyone in favor of abortion a potential murderer and get rid of them.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. —Thomas Jefferson, 1802
#9. To: farmfriend (#8)
How about we just consider anyone in favor of abortion a potential murderer and get rid of them.
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