Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Homer_J_Simpson
Feinstein is being as is usual typically disengenuous with respect to this issue. It's really not all that important except for the fact that's also reflective of the current debate over "partial birth" abortion

Feinstein is logically inconsistent in many ways the least being that she's opposed to using elective abortion for selecting the sex of the child. Or should I say gender. I still wonder what she would think about elective abortion of a child which displayed characteristics of being a hermaphrodite. I'm sure that might run contrary to her views concerning future "trans-gender" folks.

The real elephant in the parlor though is that Roe v. Wade which granted women the "right to choose" was decided on the issue of viability of the fetus not the definition of whether a fetus was a human being (though this was either stated or inferred). Viability in the original argument also didn't extend into the third trimester of pregnancy either. I raise this point because the pro-abortionists have and continue to use the argument that if you define the fetus as a human being that somehow that's going to impede on either a women's "right to choose" or a complete roll-back of Roe v Wade. Since Roe v. Wade has been extended out to emcompass all elective abortion by these same advocates, I really don't see that they've anything much to worry about!

16 posted on 03/30/2004 1:43:07 PM PST by Coeur de Lion
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Coeur de Lion
Feinstein claims to have offered an alternative "which would have the same effect" in criminal law as this bill, but would not address the "divisive issue" of when life begins as a human being. How could that be?

She must be lying about what was in her bill. Was the Protection of Fertilized Egg Act?

28 posted on 03/30/2004 3:33:22 PM PST by San Jacinto (Now is the right time for another campaign contribution to Bush/Cheney '04)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson