The legislation should pass since it would regulate abortion clinics and here in PA we passed regulatory legislation easily since Gosnell was based here.
But the 20 week issue, that is making abortions after 20 weeks illegal looks to me like a fallback from old positions for the Republicans and an attempt to create an emotional wedge issue for the 2014 elections to keep people supporting the Republican Party.
Ronald Reagan opposed all abortions with the rape, incest and life of the mother exceptions and signed legislation in California that was considered liberal when it passed in 1967.
A 20 week limit will lead to a federal court fight just like the immigration legislation that passed in Arizona a few years ago and was signed by Governor Jan Brewer.
Brewer now support amnesty anyway after getting re-elected on the back of the emotional immigration legislation.
Is the GOP-E exploiting the abortion issue now to create emotional support for their next elections.
Passing 20 week limit legislation is a retreat from Ronald Reagan’s abortion position.
I have a local GOP legislator who wants abortion legal during the first 12 weeks and he was always labeled Pro-Abortion for that in voter guides.
Guys like him will now get the Pro-Life label attached to them if they vote for such a bill.
I smell the Karl Rove emotional wedge issue to get support riled up for liberal GOP members with these 20 week abortion limit bills.
This makes after 20 weeks illegal, with ALL of the typical exceptions including rape, incest, harm to mother or fetal abnormality. Hell, this is NOT an unprecedented, extreme position; this is the law in twelve other states - ALREADY.
Plain and simple, the Dems want to be able to kill that baby right up until the last toe-nail passes the vaginal entry - PERIOD! ANY restriction from being able to kill that baby is considered a “War on Women!” and the media plays it up and sells it to the public as if this is the truth. It is simply BS!
If anything, this bill is more FOR the health of women than ANY abortion title implies. It forces Doctors to be able to admit patients to a hospital, it makes a hospital be available within a certain distance (in case of emergency), it makes abortion clinics meet medical-procedure-level standards (because abortion IS a medical procedure) oh, and it means a woman must decide to kill her baby within FIVE months of getting pregnant - OH, THE EFFING HORROR!
Even the Dems have stated that less than 2% of ALL abortions done in Texas are done AFTER 20 weeks, so then WHY would you not want to limit this procedure? These people are NOT “pro-choice” they are all about KILLING, KILLING, KILLING babies!