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Posted on 01/20/2008 9:23:16 AM PST by wagglebee
MONTPELIER, Vt.— Marking the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, some 280 Vermonters marched on the Statehouse yesterday to decry legalized abortion and celebrate the defeat last year of a bill that would have permitted physician-assisted suicide.
“This is not about doing what is easy or accepted; this is about saving lives,” said Lizzie Rinaldi, a 17-year-old junior at Twin Valley Union High School in Wilmington. Speaking in the well of the House, she called abortion “an evil that has slipped into our country disguised as a right to choose.”
Many of those in the crowd had earlier attended a special Mass celebrated by Roman Catholic Bishop Salvatore Matano at St. Augustine’s Church. They then gathered in the parking lot behind City Hall and marched to the Statehouse carrying a wide variety of signs. One said, “You’re lucky to be alive. One-third of our generation has died from abortion.”
Joanna Turner Biseglio of Waterbury Center, an at-large director with Vermont Right to Life and master of ceremonies for yesterday’s event, spoke briefly on the Statehouse steps before the group entered the building. She said that since Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, 85,000 abortions had been performed in Vermont; 48 million in the nation as a whole.
In the House chamber, Matano offered a prayer saying God’s “love is present long before our hearts begin to beat at 22 days after conception, and long after our hearts begin to fail.”
Mary Beerworth, executive director of the Vermont Right to Life Committee, drew repeated cheers as she recounted last year’s defeat of a bill that would have allowed the terminally ill to end their lives with a doctor’s help. Beerworth congratulated those present for helping with the lobbying effort that helped narrowly defeat the bill in the House.
The event’s special guest speaker was Angela Franks, author of a 2005 book linking Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger to the eugenics movement of the 1920s and 1930s, which sought to keep allegedly defective people from reproducing and to encourage those deemed to have better genes have more children.
Beerworth said Vermont Right to Life is backing three pieces of legislation this year, which she gave little chance for passage in a House and Senate dominated by Democrats who support abortion rights.
One would create a new ability to sue under Vermont law when a fetus is killed in an accident resulting from negligence; a second would call for notification of parents of minors seeking an abortion; the third would require abortion clinics to offer patients an opportunity to see an ultrasound of the fetus — Beerworth said this frequently dissuades women from getting abortions.
It was never about a right to "choose," it is about a desire to kill.
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That 17 year old has a good head on her shoulders.
Better if she was a junior in college...
A lot of young people understand how their generation has been decimated by abortion. Teenagers today may have very immoral attitudes when it comes to sex, but more and more of them are abandoning the idea that infanticide is an option.
“Beerworth said Vermont Right to Life is backing three pieces of legislation this year, which she gave little chance for passage in a House and Senate dominated by Democrats who support abortion rights.”
So why are they wasting the time in proposing the legislation? I agree that it’s better to fight and lose than to abandon the field to the culture of death, but I can only hope that they’re pursuing other strategies as well that might actually bear some fruit.
I think that the speech by the young lady was the most interesting part of the article. Infanticide will disappear, but it won’t actually become illegal in the U.S. until the last clinic closes it’s doors for lack of business.
“Teenagers today may have very immoral attitudes when it comes to sex, but more and more of them are abandoning the idea that infanticide is an option.”
Depends on the teenager of course. I think this is *the* area where our side can make some great gains. Infanticide disappears if women/girls who become pregnant refuse to undergo the procedure. In the long run, abolitionist (pro-life) parents end up raising abolitionist children. It’s a compounding effect that the culture of death hasn’t been able to match.
It was never about a right to “choose,” it is about a desire to kill.
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I think it’s more about RAW POWER ,, power to manipulate vulnerable women and the power of life and death, it’s very seductive to the weak. You’re 1000% right about it NOT being about choosing among possible outcomes ,, they only endorse one result.
A lot of young people understand how their generation has been decimated by abortion. Teenagers today may have very immoral attitudes when it comes to sex, but more and more of them are abandoning the idea that infanticide is an option.
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I’ll throw a party if it was only “decimation” ... decimation is 1 of 10 being killed. I would call their outlook as “amoral” ... When I was a kid you had to really work to get some action... I’ve been hearing terms like “sport f*****g” and “f**k buddies” to denote anonymous hookups FROM WOMEN including teens with regularity for almost 10 years...
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