by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
April 29, 2009
Austin, TX (LifeNews.com) -- When the Supreme Court handed down the Roe v. Wade decision that allowed virtually unlimited abortions, pro-life advocates said it would lead to a slippery slope. In Texas, legislators could slide down that slope when they vote on a bill that would lower the penalty for some mothers who engage in infanticide.
HB 3318 would reduce the crime of infanticide from capital murder to a state jail felony and the measure could receive a vote soon in the Texas House of Representatives.
The bill is now eligible to be scheduled on the House calendar since the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee recently approved it.
Jonathan Saenz, director of legislative affairs at Free Market Foundation, who testified against the bill during the committee hearing, told LifeNews.com that Texans need to contact their lawmakers to oppose HB 3318.
“We already have incomplete protection for unborn children, and the assault, under this bill, will now extend to babies once they're born by giving them less protection,” he said.
“We strongly oppose this bill and urge the Texas House leadership, both Republican and Democrat, to publicly condemn this outrageous legislation and stop it in its tracks," Saenz added.
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Friday, November 21, 2008
Australian Committee Proposal to Pay Mothers Late Abortion Cost for Disabled Babies Compared to Nazis
By Hilary White
CANBERRA, November 13, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Australian Parliamentary Group on Population and Development has been slammed by Queensland Senator Ron Boswell for holding to Nazi-style eugenic ideology on the abortion of disabled children.
“This revisiting of eugenics principles is repugnant to a society that prides itself on the contribution of all,” Boswell said.
The pro-abortion group had made a submission, signed by 41 Australian MPs, to the parliamentary committee that is examining the issue of abortion in Australia. The group said paying women a Medicare rebate for second-trimester abortions would save the government about $180,000 a year, due to the high costs of caring for handicapped babies who are allowed to be born.
Removing the abortion rebate, the group said, would place “emotional, physical, mental, and financial stress on families, denying women and couples the right to decide if they are equipped to raise a child with disabilities.”
According to Christian Today, so far 7 of the MPs whose names were affixed to the submission have disowned its statements about abortion and handicapped children.
Boswell heavily criticised the submission, saying that its “underlying premise” is based on eugenic principles that governments should prefer to kill the disabled rather than support them. He said it holds that “some lives are worth less than others because they will cost too much to support.”
“This is the kind of thinking that was typical of the Hitler regime. They set themselves up as judge of who deserved to live and who deserves to die.”
In the period leading up to the Second World War, the Nazi government of Germany began to implement its eugenics policies, meant to “cleanse” the German people of undesirable “racial traits.” This meant in practice the killing of those children, and later, adults, considered by the state to be genetically defective. Thousands of children and adults who suffered from mental and physical disabilities were starved and gassed to death and killed by lethal injection.
More recently, the utilitarian eugenics movement has gained popularity in scientific circles that propose to eliminate undesirable traits by killing those unborn babies, and, increasingly, newborns, who are found to be genetically deficient. Utilitarian philosophers and bioethicists like Princeton University’s Peter Singer, openly advocate for the killing of disabled children in the womb and as newborns.
Currently the abortion rate for babies with Down syndrome is estimated to be as high as 95% in many Western countries, indicating that modern utilitarian eugenics is already being implemented on a widespread scale.
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CANBERRA, November 13, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Australian Parliamentary Group on Population and Development has been slammed by Queensland Senator Ron Boswell for holding to Nazi-style eugenic ideology on the abortion of disabled children.
“This revisiting of eugenics principles is repugnant to a society that prides itself on the contribution of all,” Boswell said.
The pro-abortion group had made a submission, signed by 41 Australian MPs, to the parliamentary committee that is examining the issue of abortion in Australia. The group said paying women a Medicare rebate for second-trimester abortions would save the government about $180,000 a year, due to the high costs of caring for handicapped babies who are allowed to be born.
Removing the abortion rebate, the group said, would place “emotional, physical, mental, and financial stress on families, denying women and couples the right to decide if they are equipped to raise a child with disabilities.”
According to Christian Today, so far 7 of the MPs whose names were affixed to the submission have disowned its statements about abortion and handicapped children.
Boswell heavily criticised the submission, saying that its “underlying premise” is based on eugenic principles that governments should prefer to kill the disabled rather than support them. He said it holds that “some lives are worth less than others because they will cost too much to support.”
“This is the kind of thinking that was typical of the Hitler regime. They set themselves up as judge of who deserved to live and who deserves to die.”
In the period leading up to the Second World War, the Nazi government of Germany began to implement its eugenics policies, meant to “cleanse” the German people of undesirable “racial traits.” This meant in practice the killing of those children, and later, adults, considered by the state to be genetically defective. Thousands of children and adults who suffered from mental and physical disabilities were starved and gassed to death and killed by lethal injection.
More recently, the utilitarian eugenics movement has gained popularity in scientific circles that propose to eliminate undesirable traits by killing those unborn babies, and, increasingly, newborns, who are found to be genetically deficient. Utilitarian philosophers and bioethicists like Princeton University’s Peter Singer, openly advocate for the killing of disabled children in the womb and as newborns.
Currently the abortion rate for babies with Down syndrome is estimated to be as high as 95% in many Western countries, indicating that modern utilitarian eugenics is already being implemented on a widespread scale.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Victim advocates concerned about abortion measure
By Tony Messenger
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
04/22/2008
JEFFERSON CITY — An abortion bill approved by the Missouri House on Monday is drawing the ire of some advocates of rape victims, who normally try to stay out of the political fray surrounding the explosive issue.
The bill would make coercing someone to have an abortion a crime. The head of a coalition against domestic violence said that provision could be interpreted in a way that would prevent women who have been abused from having an abortion.
"There are elements of the bill that appear to pose some very grave consequences for rape victims and victims of domestic violence," said Colleen Coble, director of the Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence.
House Bill 1831, sponsored by Rep. Bob Onder, R-Lake Saint Louis, is Missouri Right to Life's top legislative priority. It passed 113-33 and requires Senate approval.
Onder maintains the bill protects women.
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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
04/22/2008
JEFFERSON CITY — An abortion bill approved by the Missouri House on Monday is drawing the ire of some advocates of rape victims, who normally try to stay out of the political fray surrounding the explosive issue.
The bill would make coercing someone to have an abortion a crime. The head of a coalition against domestic violence said that provision could be interpreted in a way that would prevent women who have been abused from having an abortion.
"There are elements of the bill that appear to pose some very grave consequences for rape victims and victims of domestic violence," said Colleen Coble, director of the Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence.
House Bill 1831, sponsored by Rep. Bob Onder, R-Lake Saint Louis, is Missouri Right to Life's top legislative priority. It passed 113-33 and requires Senate approval.
Onder maintains the bill protects women.
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Monday, April 21, 2008
Republican Lawmaker Proposes Amendment to Defund Planned Parenthood
By Penny Starr
March 18, 2008
(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) is proposing an amendment to the appropriations bill that funds the Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services to prohibit federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
"I just think it's wrong that the largest abortion provider in America is the largest recipient of non-abortion funding under Title X," Pence told Cybercast News Service.
Title X is the "family planning" program run by HHS that funds birth control clinics.
Pence said his amendment mirrors the so-called "Mexico City policy" that currently prohibits federal funding for family planning programs overseas that perform or promote abortions.
"We don't give any U.S. tax dollars to any foreign family planning organization that promotes or provides abortion as a means of birth control," Pence said.
"We do that because we recognize that whatever Americans believe about abortion, they understand that it's morally wrong to take the taxpayer dollars from millions of Americans who find abortion morally objectionable and use it to support organizations that promote abortion overseas," he added.
"There is, however, no domestic Mexico City," said Pence. "Organizations like Planned Parenthood can do non-abortion family planning, receive federal funding for non-abortion family planning, even though another part of the same organization provides and promotes abortion as a form of birth control.
"I think it's time for a domestic Mexico City policy," he said.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
The pro-choice movement isn't really pro-women
Abortion & Pro-Choice Lies Hurts Women - Pro-Life Video PSA
Thanks to rosaryfilms
If the pro-choice movement really is "feminist" then why do they fight to the death in support of abortion when at the same time never consider the physical and emotional effects of it? For more information on the side effects of abortion go to this link: http://www.rirtl.org/site/page.php?s=01_01_05
I find abortion to be similar to that of the female genital mutation that goes on in the Muslim world.
"I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live" (Deuteronomy 30:19
Thanks to rosaryfilms
If the pro-choice movement really is "feminist" then why do they fight to the death in support of abortion when at the same time never consider the physical and emotional effects of it? For more information on the side effects of abortion go to this link: http://www.rirtl.org/site/page.php?s=01_01_05
I find abortion to be similar to that of the female genital mutation that goes on in the Muslim world.
"I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live" (Deuteronomy 30:19
Friday, January 18, 2008
Birth rate up, abortion down
2006 saw the largest number of births in the US since the end of the baby boom -- more than four million.
And a recent study says the number of abortions is down nationwide.
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