Yet another step in overturning abortion rights in America...

not to mention the "born alive" buzzword/catchphrase/meme that they're trying to spread.

Seriously, these assholes speak as if every abortion is late-term or somehting, when most are done as soon as they can be, which is about 6 weeks to 8 weeks I'd imagine. At 6 weeks, ain't no way in hell there's anything gonna even slightly resemble a living being.

I have this awful vision of mutated bloblike heads hooked up to wires and wiggling about in labs, somewhat Eraserhead-ish. I mean seriously, is THAT what they want here? The sick fucks.

No, what they want is to paint a picture of a LIVING BEING being RIPPED UNTIMELY FROM TH' WOMB and SQUIRMING ABOUT and then being CAST COLDLY INTO THE TRASH by a NAZI and then a SINGLE TEAR rolling down the PRESIDENT'S cheek.

Just like the "partial birth" nonsense, it's all about creating hysteria through misinformation. These people are liars, plain and simple. They lie.

yeah, i'm waiting for some politico to make a deliberate MacBeth ref...

to expand on that point: what is human shaped isn't necessarily human , the brain must be developped enough to allow to have interactive relations with the world

That they think anything sooner is a functioning useful human is ridiculous, and that they want to open the door to the misery and expense of birthing and then artificially enabling these fetuses beggars belief.

"there are those in our society who have convinced themselves that some newborn infants — particularly those born alive during abortions, or with handicaps — are not really legal persons," said Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the group."

So they're trying not so subtley to bring in shit like the Schiavo issue to bear with this law too, by the looks of it. Who thinks a disabled person is "not really [a] legal person"? Lordy.

Onfray remarked that except for abortion and contraception mostly, two moments of the post-christian body, many so-called secular states have civil penal code still too similar to the judeo christian option of the vatican, ex:

interdiction of research on embryo for therapeutic usage
condemnation of surrogacy even for women who had ovarian cancer
interdiction of medically assisted procreation for homo couples
systematic refusal of cloning
refusal to legalize drugs
condemnation of assisted suicide

the authority tries to own bodies , but one owns it's own body!

Praise the artifice over nature, freedom over theology, immanence over transcendence.

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/pp2/portal/files/portal/medicalinfo/abortion/pub-abortion-legal.xml

"To impose a law defining a fetus as a "person," granting it rights equal to or superior to a woman's — a thinking, feeling, conscious human being — is arrogant and absurd. It only serves to diminish women."

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a summary of Ratziger's catholic bioconservative views on enhancement, on a right to bodily autonomy and self-determination, on contraception and on life extension and anti-aging

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/csm/20050427/ts_csm/anotify

The bill, called the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act, or CIANA, would make it a federal offense to transport a minor across state lines for an abortion in order to evade a parental notification law, unless she has obtained a waiver from a judge. The bill would also require a doctor to notify a minor's parent before performing an abortion, if that girl is a resident of another state. The second part also contains provisions that allow a minor to get around parental notification.

In contrast with the ban on so-called "partial-birth abortions," which is not in effect as it faces continued court action, legal experts say that the new teen abortion restrictions have a much better chance of becoming the law of the land and would have broad impact...

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Opponents of CIANA argue that the bill fails to pass constitutional muster in many ways. Jennifer Dalven, deputy director of the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, lists three:

First, the bill contains no exception for circumstances when the health of the minor is endangered. The bill does discuss cases when a minor's life is endangered, but health is not addressed. Abortion foes object to health exceptions, saying they are used to cover emotional distress and could be employed for any abortion.

Second, there is no judicial waiver option in states with no parental-involvement laws.

And third, Ms. Dalven says, the bill violates guarantees of equal protection under the Constitution. Specifically, she says, the bill fails by requiring a pregnant minor to comply with her home-state laws in addition to those of the state where she intends to undergo an abortion.

http://www.twinpeaks.org/archives/images/jpgs/bob.jpg

-- The Ghost of Dan Perry (djperr...), April 27th, 2005.

Of course somehow Dubya would secretly 'take care' of the problem if she got preggers like that.

Scott couldn't have picked a better political climate to do his deed. Just the sort of gasoline soaked fodder the Xians need. There seems to be a well organized movement happening here.

The Bush administration said Friday that it would enforce a nearly 3-year-old federal law that requires doctors to attempt to keep alive a fetus that survives an abortion

That's F**ked up!
Imagine finding out your mom was trying to off you and you were only saved from the garbage bin by a law. I can only guess at the problems THAT family will have. I thought I had family drama!

I thought I had started a "rolling reproductive rights rollback" thread but I guess not. anyway, the trend continues; things are grim in my state, although it's worth noting that Wake County quietly reinstated the abortion coverage they'd earlier stripped from county employee medical plans.

http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2010/jul/25/some-may-lose-help/

This thread title will last another dozen years easily.

in case you missed it, Personhood USA now openly saying "just because you were raped doesn't make abortion ok." This link is to Mother Jones, but click right on through the press release: MJ is accurately reporting on this release.