Posted on 02/11/2015 3:26:24 PM PST by Morgana
After days of debates lasting hours on the House of Delegates floor, West Virginia lawmakers passed a bill that would limit abortions in the state.
On Wednesday House Bill 2368 passed by an overwhelming majority, 87-12, with both republicans and democrats voting in favor of it.
The bill would ban abortions after 20 weeks, granting exemptions if a mother's life was in danger or the fetus was not medically viable.
Doctors who would perform an abortion after this time would be at risk of losing their medical licenses.
“Truly what we are talking about is just ensuring that a child, which is able to feel pain, would not have to suffer during an abortion procedure,” said House Speaker Tim Armstead, R- Kanawha.
The bill passed just minutes before the West Virginians for Life group held its annual pro-life rally in the Capitol.
“There is just so much scientific evidence that children feel pain at that age. It's just wonderful that it can be stopped,” said Sherri Stevens, who traveled to the statehouse from Preston County.
During the nearly two-hour long discussion Wednesday many delegates spoke out in opposition of the bill.
Some lawmakers argued the bill was too invasive and would intrude upon a woman and doctor's relationship. Others argued the bill did not have an exemption for rape or incest.
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“The bill passed just minutes before the West Virginians for Life group held its annual pro-life rally in the Capitol. “
You better believe Morgana was at that rally too!
Will the Governor sign it?
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“Will the Governor sign it?”
well here’s the good part. IF it passes the senate and he does veto it, there is enough time for it to go back and both to override his veto. Something like that anyway as I was told.
good
Way to go WV and reject as unconstitutional any federal act or decision that attempts to overrule it.
The bill is unconstitutional and immoral.
It CODIFIES PERMISSION in the WV statutes to murder ALL the babies, as long as they are murdered on time, and by the rules.
Sorry, but well-regulated mass murder is still mass murder.
No celebratory fireworks from me.
reject as unconstitutional any federal act or decision that attempts to overrule it.
We have more than forty years worth of experience with the folks pushing these kinds of bills through, so we already know that they won't fight back against the federal courts when they inevitably overrule them, as they have over and over again concerning this sort of legislation.
In the first place, they've already surrendered the only real moral, constitutional and legal arguments against abortion, so they have absolutely nothing to fight back with anyhow.
And secondly, they themselves are a bunch of judicial supremacists.
So, in closing, while this may look like a "pro-life" victory to the naive and ignorant, it is not. It amounts to nothing more than the means to raise more money for the "pro-life" industry, and finagle more Republican votes from those poor souls who have again been fooled into believing that they have accomplished something.
OK, well I agree with you there. Abortion is murder and infanticide, so I should have qualified my praise. Standing up to the feds is a victory, but not the final victory.
The first victory is state rejection of federal meddling in the abortion issue. The final victory is influencing the state to stop abortions altogether.
But don’t make the mistake of thinking, as so many do, that the answer is unconstitutional federal meddling into the abortion issue since we all know it was the feds who overturned state laws that banned abortions in the first place.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are CREATED EQUAL, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..."
That includes our federal and state governments. All of them.
To fail in that primary sworn duty, or to fail to stand forcefully against others who fail in that duty, is to help destroy the moral, constitutional and legal basis for this free republic and our claim to liberty as a people.
Morally, I think we’re on the same page. But personal moral viewpoints are not the basis for federal government actions - the Constitution is. Otherwise, you lay the groundwork for tyranny.
Abortion, any abortion, destroys every single clause of the stated purposes of the Constitution, and it grossly violates the explicit, imperative requirement in two separate Amendments, the Fifth and the Fourteenth, that equal protection be provided for every person, in every state.
“No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law.”
“No State shall deprive any person of life without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Agreed with every post that you posted.
Thanks.
Some folks get tired of me saying it, but I ain’t gonna stop as long as I have breathe.
God bless and keep you.
WTG, dearest Morgana!
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