Abortion Banned - Will Your State be Next?
We've got no welfare state, no equal rights for teen parents, no support for mothers and children, and yet we may soon be forced to have children against our will...
Pro-choice America is on high-alert amid all kinds of right-wing attacks on the right to choose. In a move aimed at challenging Roe v. Wade, South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds (you guessed it, Republican) today signed into law a ban that criminalizes abortion in that state.
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday it will hear Gonzales v. Carhart, challenging the federal abortion ban that has been struck down by every court that has examined it because, among other things, the ban doesn't protect women's health.
Meanwhile, the Mississippi House passed a bill last week that would nearly ban the procedure in that state. The proposal awaits consideration in the state Senate, and Gov. Haley Barbour has said he'll sign it into law.
"The anti-choice folks across the country are feeling emboldened by the climate," Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, said Friday. "You have an anti-choice president, you have an anti-choice U.S. House and Senate."
In Missouri, a lawmaker is proposing a bill and a constitutional amendment to ban abortions in that state except to save a woman's life; it's not clear whether the proposals will pass.
And last month, in Scheidler v. National Organization for Women, the Supreme Court held that federal extortion and racketeering laws cannot be used to stop anti-choice extremists from obstructing access to clinics, trespassing on or damaging clinic property, or using violence or threats of violence against clinics, their employees, or their patients, effectively taking away a tool to protect women, doctors, and clinics from anti-choice activities.
Here we go...
NARAL Pro-choice America
Planned Parenthood
Pro-choice America is on high-alert amid all kinds of right-wing attacks on the right to choose. In a move aimed at challenging Roe v. Wade, South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds (you guessed it, Republican) today signed into law a ban that criminalizes abortion in that state.
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday it will hear Gonzales v. Carhart, challenging the federal abortion ban that has been struck down by every court that has examined it because, among other things, the ban doesn't protect women's health.
Meanwhile, the Mississippi House passed a bill last week that would nearly ban the procedure in that state. The proposal awaits consideration in the state Senate, and Gov. Haley Barbour has said he'll sign it into law.
"The anti-choice folks across the country are feeling emboldened by the climate," Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, said Friday. "You have an anti-choice president, you have an anti-choice U.S. House and Senate."
In Missouri, a lawmaker is proposing a bill and a constitutional amendment to ban abortions in that state except to save a woman's life; it's not clear whether the proposals will pass.
And last month, in Scheidler v. National Organization for Women, the Supreme Court held that federal extortion and racketeering laws cannot be used to stop anti-choice extremists from obstructing access to clinics, trespassing on or damaging clinic property, or using violence or threats of violence against clinics, their employees, or their patients, effectively taking away a tool to protect women, doctors, and clinics from anti-choice activities.
Here we go...
NARAL Pro-choice America
Planned Parenthood
posted by Contact at 11:20 AM
2 Comments:
Let's take another non-emotional look at the Gonzales vs. Carhart case. There is there a provision for the life of a mother. But try to dig further and think please about this question: what is meant by a woman's health and is this worth the brutal death of a fetus at least five months in utero? The idea of a woman's health in this particular case needs to be reexamined for its extreme broadness as does the whole partial birth abortion phenomenon and the related fury of the feminists. One-hundred years from now, people sadly will yawn over the war, another war!, in Iraq, but will be aghast that our society performed this horror on the least suspecting among us.
I live in Indiana, so this really scares me, because my state very well COULD be next.
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