Posted on 11/04/2011 2:01:40 AM PDT by markomalley
Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.), chair of the Democratic National Committee, said Thursday that for states to enact constitutional amendments that say human life begins at conception is “an extreme and radical step.”
“For the vast majority of Americans, including people on both sides of the abortion issue, this is an extreme and radical step,” she said.
Speaking to reporters on a conference call, Wasserman-Schultz said that so-called personhood amendments are a “divisive, dangerous, and destructive” attack on women.
“To American women, their reproductive health and choice is an intensely personal and private issue between themselves, their families, and their doctors,” the DNC chairwoman said. “But Republicans in Washington and across the country have tried to limit these rights, with their assault on Planned Parenthood in Congress and restrictive laws in the states being among several examples.”
“Now," she said, "the effort by the far right [is] to pass these so-called personhood amendments--divisive, dangerous, and destructive laws which would cripple a woman’s right to choose, limit access to birth control, and put the lives of women with difficult pregnancies at risk.”
Wasserman-Shultz called the personhood amendments being considered or petitioned for in Mississippi, Ohio, Texas, Kansas, and Florida “the most extreme assault on a woman’s right to choose.”
Personhood amendments define when a human being becomes a "person" under the law. An amendment proposed in Mississippi, for example, says that a person is “every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the functional equivalent thereof.”
Wasserman-Shultz said that the Mississippi amendment--which will go before voters on Nov. 8--will outlaw all abortions and some forms of birth control (presumably because they kill human embryos) and also IUDs, the morning-after pill, and in vitro fertilization procedures that create and discard human embyros.
Under the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states are required to provide equal protection of the law to all persons.
Wasserman-Schultz said that one of her main goals was to dissuade Florida voters from signing a petition needed to get a personhood amendment on the ballot there in 2012.
“We’re sounding the alarm bells now because it’s absolutely critical that Floridians understand just how extreme this personhood campaign is, what it would do to not only a woman’s right to choose but to saving the lives of women, to the opportunity for parents to be--the opportunity for men and women to become parents when they’ve not been able to,” she said.
Florida's proposed amendment says: “The words ‘person’ and ‘natural person’ apply to all human beings, irrespective of age, race, health, function, condition of physical and/or mental dependency and/or disability, or method of reproduction, from the beginning of the biological development of that human being."
“It is a scientific fact that life begins at conception.”
The fact that they argue about this explains everything
about who and what they are. People who have no value on
human life other than their own, deserve no respect. If
they can say “when life begins” then you know they will be
after “when life should end” next. Obama care = Logan’s Run.
Over 100 million Americans are Catholic or Southern Baptist. Are more than one-third of the electorate “radical extremists”?
Someone should ask She Who Never Washes Her Hair if she were pregnant and someone kicked her in the stomach as hard as they could, should that person be charged with murder?
“No Miss Debbie:
Taking scissors to the head of a fetus who only wants to live is EXTREME. . .”
EXACTLY!
That's an argument they would prefer to avoid, because then they would have to make the ugly claims that inevitably follow.
Did this bi$ch Wasserman-Shultz ever think that making it law that life begins at conception, is being done to enable the judicial system to charge people for murder/manslaughter when a perp does something to a preganant woman that cause her to lose the baby?
Sooooo . . . you’re writing for CNS under the pseudonym Matt Cover now, eh?
Wouldn't you like to see her answer as to when she believes life begins?
People like her will recognize that an animal's life begins at conception yet they can't seem to do the same with humans.
"Have your pet spayed or neutered."
Ok, Debbie, then please tell me when you think life begins???
Would you agree that once life begins - whenever it is - that after that, to take that life is murder?
And now, what is your basis for your deciding when life begins?
What if you are wrong? By even one day? If you are off by even one day, that means you are supporting murder.......
Love to see any lib deal with that one......never happen....
A true “enemy of life”.
There, I said it, yea, I do feel better.
Therapy is helping......
Really? Well I think killing unborn children is extreme and radical, Debbie.
On the eve of its destruction, slavery and the political system it supported ($$$) denied the humanity of those in bondage. All earlier defenses, either economic or paternalistic, were abandoned in favor of tortured pseudo-scientific arguments that black were not fully human. And here is Debbie Wasserman-Schultz saying the argument that human life begins at conception is “an extreme and radical step.”
We may well be near the end. .
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What a staggering ignorance of basic biology.
A song, *The Spirit of the Age* by Michael Card, does a great job on addressing abortion. Thanks to Fr. Chris for putting this very moving you tube video together.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT8OPGrTg-c
The heir apparent to Nancy Pelosi’s job. Just as evil.
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