Posted on 03/10/2016 10:29:33 AM PST by Morgana
West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin has vetoed a a bill to ban the dismemberment abortion method that tears unborn babies limb from limb. The West Virginia Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act, SB 10, successfully made it through the state legislature and would make it the latest state to ban the abortion method. State lawmakers are expected to override the governor’s veto.
The bill passed by a vote of 86-13 after more than an hour of debate. Any abortion practitioner who violates the ban would lose his medical license, essentially prohibiting him from ever doing abortions again.
This bill outlaws a form of abortion that “dismember[s] a living unborn child and extract[s] him or her one piece at a time from the uterus.” This heinous procedure undermines the dignity of all human life, and should be outlawed in West Virginia. In ordinary medical care, doctors have testified that there is no emergency that requires dismembering a living unborn baby.
“Dismembering a living, unborn child in the womb so that she bleeds to death is so horrific that it should be outlawed,” said West Virginians for Life President Wanda Franz. “West Virginians can indicate their support for this law by contacting their legislators and asking them to vote for SB 10.”
Unfortunately, Tomblin vetoed the bill.
In his veto message, Tomblin noted that the U.S. Supreme Court and lower courts have struck down similar bans on a woman’s right to choose the abortion procedure.
“I am advised this bill is overbroad and unduly burdens a woman’s fundamental right to privacy,” Tomblin wrote.
The Senate and House of Delegates passed the ban on so-called “dismemberment abortions” last month. Legislators plan to override the veto this week, possibly as early as today.
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“I believe Senate Bill 10 strikes the right balance between the rights of physicians to practice medicine, a woman’s right to privacy and the lives of unborn children,” said Senate President Bill Cole, R-Mercer. “The Senate will vote to override this veto without delay.”
“Dismemberment abortion kills a baby by tearing her apart limb from limb,” said National Right to Life Director of State Legislation Mary Spaulding Balch, J.D. “Before the first trimester ends, the unborn child has a beating heart, brain waves, and every organ system in place. Dismemberment abortions occur
But would such an abortion ban be constitutional given the Roe v. Wade decision? The group points to the high court’s ruling in the partial-birth abortion case as grounds for banning dismemberment abortions too.
In his dissent to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2000 Stenberg v. Carhart decision, Justice Kennedy observed that in D&E dismemberment abortions, “The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn limb from limb. The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off.” Justice Kennedy added in the Court’s 2007 opinion, Gonzales v. Carhart, which upheld the ban on partial-birth abortion, that D&E abortions are “laden with the power to devalue human life…”
“When abortion textbooks describe in cold, explicit detail exactly how to kill a human being by ripping off arms and legs piece by piece, civilized members of society have no choice but to stand up and demand a change,” added Spaulding Balch. “When you think it can’t be uglier, the abortion industry continues to shock with violent methods of abortion.”
ACTION: Contact the governor here.
So you have no brain and let other people do your thinking for you. Got it.
Let’s other people tell him what to do. Follow the money
He’s having a rough week,poor baby.Two overridden vetos in a week.
The WV house and senate overrode this POS governor’s veto of concealed carry just last week. I pray they will also override this veto.
State lawmakers are expected to override the governor’s veto.
The bill passed by a vote of 86-13 after more than an hour of debate.
Any abortion practitioner who violates the ban would lose his medical license, essentially prohibiting him from ever doing abortions again.
Tomblin is a Democrat. I guess they didn’t think it necessary to give his party affiliation.
Here’s hoping the WV legislature will OVERRIDE, just like on the Constitutional Carry bill.
How could the Governor veto it when so many in the legislature support it???
In a just world, this governor would be drawn and quartered.
Politicians tremble in fear of the wrath of militant fang-tooth feminazis when you try to take away their sacrament.
Thanks, Democrats are the party of evil.
Bernie Sanders support no bans on abortion whatsoever even up until birth.
Why don’t the moderators at D debates ask about that over and over again?
Sure D’s are so much for the people that they are willing to KILL the most vulnerable people.
Any prolife D politician that stays in the (D) party should be voted out. Silence about the evil among you is evil itself.
Demoncrap Governor.
Establishment.
Funny.
Obama and Reid-Pelosi took AWAY my right to privacy in MY health care while mandating Obamacare!
Well hell. Lets up the ante. Why don’t we allow abortion by slow torture, extending the operation over a three- to five-week period, with the goal to maximize pain to the fetus but not kill it too quickly! Why we could have reality shows about it, and using sonograms, let the audience judge the most horrifying silent screams the fetus makes! Think of the MONEY we could make, and if anyone objects, we can protest them saying that they are not respecting a woman’s privacy!
Politicians should tremble in fear of the wrath of their Creator, but they don’t seem to have a heart or a soul.
One of the monsters, almost demonic in their insatiable thirst for baby blood and pain.
...do you support the W.V. Governor's veto?
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