Posted on 06/03/2012 5:02:08 PM PDT by Libloather
Louisiana House approves bill banning abortions after 20 weeks
By Kathy Finn
Fri Jun 1, 2012 7:50pm EDT
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - The Louisiana state House of Representatives on Friday unanimously approved a bill that would prohibit abortion beyond 20 weeks after fertilization unless the mother's life is in danger.
Georgia a month ago became the seventh state to ban most or all abortions after 20 weeks. Alabama, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska and North Carolina also have such restrictions.
Under the Louisiana measure, doctors who violate the 20-week provision could face up to two years in prison.
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Why not pass a law where it would be okay to Murder a person who in under 20 years old, but against the law to murder someone who is older than 20?
Heading to the Surpeme Court. Incidentally, whoever wins the 2102 Presidential election will be appointing new justices.
Don’t forget Arizona as well.
The libs will find a lib judge to declare it unconstitutional before the ink dries on the bill.
Falwell once said, “if hijackers have a plane on the tarmac with all the passengers hostages, and are willing to let some of the hostages go right now, you accept what you can get from them now and try to get the rest out later”.
He said that in answer to a question how could he support a law that would outlaw abortion except in the cases of rape and incest.
It’s a good principle and I think it applies here. This is the law they can get in Louisiana right now. Should pro-life people reject this law and hold out for all the hostages or nothing?
Get what you can get when you can get it.
Then, go to work on the rest.
It is this practice of incrementalism that has allowed the left to gain so much ground over the past sixty years.
It is the policy of "a whole loaf or none at all" that has kept conservatives from advancing their agenda to any important degree.
Thank God for Romney. We can be sure that he’ll appoint conservatives just like he did in MA. :barf:
Absolutely. Swing for the fences, and take the walk when offered. It’s not an ‘either/or’ situation.
We will be hearing the usual squawk from the commie donks.
Dark allies and coat-hangers, chained to the kitchen barefoot, etc.
All too predictable...
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Exactly. The left is content to make slow gains over time, block by block, store-front by store-front.
We are more inclined to demand all-or-nothing... and usually nothing comes of our demands... and the left continues its slow progressive march forward.
Watch it. Humanism’s bio-ethics “experts” are advocating the right of parents to murder their children in their first year if they don’t want them.
Because a law making it illegal to murder both those under 20 years old and those over 20 years old wouldn’t get struck down by the courts.
A state can pass a law banning abortion from the moment life begins (i.e., fertilization), but it would be struck down immediately and babies would continue to get murdered in the womb up to the 9th month of gestation, which would save 0 lives. Or a state can pass a law banning abortion after 20 weeks, which would have a good chance of being upheld and would save the lives of countless babies; such law would also set the stage for the eventual overturning of Roe v. Wade, after which a state could indeed pass the law that you and I both recognize is the only moral alternative in a perfect world (one that prohibits the intentional taking of an innocent human life, except for self-defense, from conception until natural death). Sitting back and denigrating every pro-life law as “insufficiently pro-life” won’t save any babies, and it won’t bring about the overturning of Roe any sooner. Let’s not make the perfect the enemy of the good, particularly when babies’ lives are at stake.
After the post-20-week bans are upheld by SCOTUS, we can try for a post-10-week ban, or, if a conservative replaces Kennedy or one of the 4 liberal Justices, we can go for the outright ban. But right now, we’ve got to take what we can get.
This imaginary line, like any other, is indefensible. There is only one bright line in the entire human lifespan, the line drawn by Nature (or, if you will, Nature's God) at the moment of conception. Everything that follows is a continuum.
And the more people realize this, the closer we are to the goal worthy of our historic Republic: the equal protection of the laws for all, born or unborn. No ifs, ands, buts, or penumbras.
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