Posted on 05/02/2007 3:20:23 PM PDT by wagglebee
Promoters call it the Freedom of Choice Act, which is actually true. If passed, it would retroactively and forever free the abortion industry to infinity and beyond from every "federal, state and local statute, ordinance, regulation, administrative order, decision, policy [and] practice," encumbering abortion in any way whatsoever.
Pro-aborts reintroduced FOCA immediately following the Supreme Court's April 18 decision upholding the Partial Birth Abortion Ban with expressions of financial panic not seen since the stock market crashed in 1929.
Pro-lifers have aborted FOCA several times since the 1980s, but terrified pro-abortion politicians and abortion-industry thugs fearing for their deathlihood seized on the Supreme partial-birth abortion decision to attempt a do-over.
Public relations aficionados that they are, Planned Parenthood and other industry leeches reassured us in press statements they intended not just to rescue partial-birth abortion for America but also every other equally "seismic" and "grim" Supreme Court anti-abortion decision that might be made ever after.
Doug Johnson of National Right to Life called FOCA the Freedom for Partial-Birth Abortionists Act, which is catchy.
Planned Parenthood said FOCA would "codify in federal law the protections for a woman's right to choose as outlined in Roe v. Wade."
In actuality, FOCA would dwarf Roe.
FOCA would kill every abortion law in the land the Supreme Court has rendered constitutional under Roe and pre-emptively strike any pro-life law ever to follow.
FOCA would wipe out every parental notification and consent law, every informed consent law, every law restricting government funding of abortion, every law prohibiting abortions in public hospitals, every law mandating waiting periods, every medical professional conscience clause law, every abortion clinic regulation, every law stating abortion procedures must only be committed by physicians, and more. Pro-life politicians would even be prohibited from giving pro-life speeches.
Under FOCA, mothers on their way to abortions would no longer have to obey traffic signals. Family and friends would be forbidden to suggest the other a-word – adoption – out loud. Phone companies could be sued for lightning storms that rendered phones useless when a mother tried to make an abortion appointment.
OK, I added those last three. But you get the point.
Under FOCA, no abortion procedure could be touched with a 10-foot legal crochet hook. Obviously, FOCA would reverse the partial-birth decision and "enshrine," as NOW president Kim Gandy phrased it, every other abortion procedure under the moonless sky.
This would have to include Everything Delivered But The Big Toe Abortions, which Sen. Barbara Boxer infamously refused to say should be illegal during an enlightening exchange with then-Sen. Rick Santorum on the Senate floor in 1999.
FOCA states that prior to legalized abortion "an estimated 1.2 million women each year were forced to resort to illegal abortions, despite the risk of unsanitary conditions, incompetent treatment, infection, hemorrhage, disfiguration and death."
Hmm.
I wouldn't want to accuse the abortion industry of inflating numbers for their own gain, but I'm having trouble comprehending how a population of 200 million in 1970 could render 1.2 million illegal abortions when a population of 300 million in 2006 rendered 1.3 million legal abortions.
As for "unsanitary conditions, incompetent treatment, infection, hemorrhage, disfiguration and death" pre-Roe, surely pro-aborts are not implying anything has changed. I'm forced to wonder if they've been trying to get high off their own suction machines.
In the classic rock band satire movie "This is Spinal Tap," Nigel explained to Marty how his band's amplifiers went one notch above the standard "10."
"If we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?" asked Nigel.
"Put it up to 11," answered Marty.
"Eleven. Exactly," responded Nigel. "One louder."
In America, abortion has already pushed millions over the cliff. FOCA would force abortion on us "one louder."
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Anyone who wonders why folks like me are borderline deranged when it comes to opposing Rudy Giuliani’s presidential aspirations should realize that he’d probably sign this bill into law if he were sitting in the White House right now.
I’m not sure how this would work. How can a law be enacted that cannot be struck down by the SCOTUS?
LOL.
Catchy!
It has to be in the Constitution or amendment. What they want is basically that, a law with Constitutional authority and since they know the people would never put it into the Constitution this a a special interest end-run at the Constitution.
Won’t work.
It has to be in the Constitution or amendment. What they want is basically that, a law with Constitutional authority and since they know the people would never put it into the Constitution this a a special interest end-run at the Constitution.
Won’t work.
Rudy doesn’t have a chance. Guy’s a NYC Republican ~ don’t mean a thing.
By not violating the constitution or amendments.
I call them the Death Eaters.
Yeah...but Roe V. Wade is already supposed to be Constitutional (cough, cough) and, yet, this Court may still overturn it. Seems to me that there is no such thing as a law that cannot be overturned no matter how it is crafted.
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April 27 something powerful in the spiritual realm (from the devil) was going on in PP in SD. I was there prayer sieging and ended up there for most of the day. From the spiritual realm there was battle that rendered me with no strength, and physically shaking. In the physical realm there was a camera crew that showed up, high dollar vehicles from several states bearing briefcase toting business attired women. What does Illinois have to do the South Dakota PP?
Any idea when this FOCA was brought back up?
I am wondering what was video-taped. The van had no logo on it defining who they were.
They were aborting that day along with whatever this meeting was about.
I call them the Death Eaters.
My word, I think you have something with that.
The way they carry on about the least little bit of restriction on infanticide one might think we had cut off their food supply.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
One of the things we ought do more effectively is expose the treachery of men like Harry Reid, who voted for a ban on partial birth abortion but showed his true dead soul by griping when the subpreme court didn't toss out the ban! Most democrats will make excuses for Harry, but some, maybe even a small number, will see the duplicitous nature of the Harry Reids running the democrat party. It is the only way to get these dead souls out of office.
“...to infinity and beyond ...”
LOL, what?
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