Please help:ABORTION what do you think about the Freedom of Choice Act and Obama saying he will sign it?
ABORTION what do you think about the Freedom of Choice Act and Obama saying he will sign it?
I think this is sick and sad.
What is the Practical Impact of FOCA?
In elevating abortion to a fundamental right, FOCA poses an undeniable and irreparable danger to common-sense laws supported by a majority of Americans. Among the more than 550 federal and state laws that FOCA would nullify are:
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Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003
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Hyde Amendment (restricting taxpayer funding of abortions)
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Restrictions on abortions performed at military hospitals
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Restrictions on insurance coverage for abortion for federal employees
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Informed consent laws
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Waiting periods
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Parental consent and notification laws
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Health and safety regulations for abortion clinics
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Requirements that licensed physicians perform abortions
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“Delayed enforcement” laws (banning abortion when Roe v. Wade is overturned and/or the authority to restrict abortion is returned to the states)
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Bans on partial-birth abortion
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Bans on abortion after viability. FOCA’s apparent attempt to limit post-viability abortions is illusory. Under FOCA, post-viability abortions are expressly permitted to protect the woman’s “health.” Within the context of abortion, “health” has been interpreted so broadly that FOCA would not actually proscribe any abortion before or after viability.
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Limits on public funding for elective abortions (thus, making American taxpayers fund a procedure that many find morally objectionable)
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Limits on the use of public facilities (such has public hospitals and medical schools at state universities) for abortions
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State and federal legal protections for individual healthcare providers who decline to participate in abortions
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Legal protections for Catholic and other religiously-affiliated hospitals who, while providing care to millions of poor and uninsured Americans, refuse to allow abortions within their facilities
Notably, pro-abortion groups do not deny FOCA’s draconian impact. For example, Planned Parenthood has explained, "FOCA will supercede anti-choice laws that restrict the right to choose, including laws that prohibit the public funding of abortions for poor women or counseling and referrals for abortions. Additionally, FOCA will prohibit onerous restrictions on a woman's right to choose, such as mandated delays and targeted and medically unnecessary regulations."
Please Sign the Fight FOCA Petition
http://www.fightfoca.com/
Why should she have a ABORTION in the first place?
Beeing for this bill will hurt the mom because non-licensed physicians will do abortions.
This bill is not about Abortion being llegal or no?
It just shows how evil this man is and certainly answers the often asked question of whether he is Christian. He is not. This is just the beginning, he has already signed a executive order for American taxpayer dollars to fund abortions around the world. It looks as though Americas biggest export will be the evil of murder of babies by their own mothers.
On the White House web site it shows his next targets for destroying the moral foundation of America. He will promote same sex marriage which will destroy the sanctity of marriage and will promotethe adoption of children by homosexuals. May the Lord have mercy on him and America. God bless!
In Christ
Fr. Joseph
I disagree with Abortions ..
Even if we try and fight it.. will it really be banned? I mean he has been talking about abortions since day one. Seems more and more woman want to abort these days.
Maybe what he should do is fund for safe sex classes and bags of condoms or just stitch of the vagina of every woman that can't grow up and learn that sex could equal child!!
And sadly for the people that have the stories "o I was raped" well God doesn't put things in your life he don't think you can handle. Adoption is the best choice if you wouldn't want to keep it. I mean seriously why punish the child as a criminal when the rapist was the real criminal.
** gave u a thumbs up Petrice – I would rather have the woman die in a alley! Why is it fair she lives and not the baby? **
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i think it's wrong and there is no excuse for abortion…someone should get rid of the jerk,so much for helping the American people…
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Save yourself the trouble and your kid the trouble and just get the damn thing!!!
This world is no place for a child!!!
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Would you rather women had abortions in back alleys and died of infections because the public system makes it too difficult for them?
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If it's going on inside your body then fine. If you want to pass a law that gives you control over someone Else's body,then go be the next hitler,dick-nose. Someone posted a sign in my town stating abortion—the number one cause of death in Minnesota. That is a total lie. I think cancer and heart disease are first. I guess it's OK to lie to prove your point. So much for the land of the free.
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FOCA is bad for women, children, and the unborn. It could open the doors for more than America may realizes, and once those doors are open they are very, very hard to close again.
FOCA may require hospitals to provide abortions, this could cause Catholic hospitals which currently treat 1 out of every 6 Americans, to have to close their doors. Catholic hospitals do not currently offer abortions, yet they find many other things to do in helping people with true sicknesses and medical needs…yet they will have to stop helping others because of the FOCA. Just because someone wants to selectively kill their unborn child, many thousands of people in need of real medical care will suffer.
Also, because of the lack of need for parental notification and/or informed consent, it will much easier for perverts such as some dads and step-dads who get their underage daughters pregnant, to force them to have abortions, to conceal their crimes.
All through this election, I heard so many people (even Catholic who voted Obama) say "it's not about abortion." Yet here we are only one week into his presidency and already it's all about abortion. He has funded international abortion, and considers abortion and birth control "economic stimulus." Next the FOCA to make sure that no human being is allowed to come into this world unless their world is "perfect" by liberal standards. Persons are valued not on the basis of their humanity but on the circumstances of their conception. It is a sad, sad time for America.
As far as "back-alley" abortions go, that is such a ludicrous argument. First of all women "choose" to got get back alley abortions. Before the legalization of abortion, it was also socially stigmatizing to be pregnant outside of marriage, that was the reason for getting the abortion in most cases. Not that the woman didn't want her child, but that she was pregnant out of wedlock. In our society today, that is obviously no longer an issue. There are scads of unmarried women having children proudly, so that stigma doesn't exist anymore. A woman who does not want to have a child can and should give that child up for adoption…or stop having sex with men she doesn't want to have a family with.
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It just shows how evil this man is and certainly answers the often asked question of whether he is Christian. He is not. This is just the beginning, he has already signed a executive order for American taxpayer dollars to fund abortions around the world. It looks as though Americas biggest export will be the evil of murder of babies by their own mothers.
On the White House web site it shows his next targets for destroying the moral foundation of America. He will promote same sex marriage which will destroy the sanctity of marriage and will promotethe adoption of children by homosexuals. May the Lord have mercy on him and America. God bless!
In Christ
Fr. Joseph
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There are some things wrong there..
The Freedom of Choice Act (H.R. 1964/S. 1173) is a bill in the 110th United States Congress which "declares that it is the policy of the United States that every woman has the fundamental right to choose to bear a child; terminate a pregnancy prior to fetal viability; or terminate a pregnancy after viability when necessary to protect her life or her health.
This bill in it's wording can not null and void partial birth abortion as it says right there that it gives the right to terminate a pregnancy PRIOR to fetal viability, which is essentially where we are now with abortion. Partial birth abortion was late term, meaning past viability, and thus in this wording doesn't matter, as this clearly states prior. Which also nulls your statement that it says it nulls past viability abortion. If you looked it up instead of going to a propaganda site you may have found out more about it.
Go read it
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:S.2020:
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I'd have a lot more sympathy if you weren't twisting the facts. If abortion is so completely wrong, why do you need to?
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im 16 my mom wants me to have an abortion but i dont want 2
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I don't care what Obama signs. Laws lack moral and religious beliefs. Prostitution is legal in Nevada. So, prostitution is wrong unless you're in Nevada?
What I care about is TRUTHFUL education for young people and family support for women who are facing unplanned pregnancy. I do not want Planned Parenthood teaching sex ed in high schools. Planned Parenthood teaching sex ed is no different than McDonalds teaching nutrition. Don't live your life based on what law says is acceptable. Get the facts and information for yourself then decide. Teach your children and family based on your own moral beliefs not what Obama says is correct.
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Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003
*I don't get why women would do this. I mean you already put up with being pregnant for 9 months. And you're still going to have to poop the baby out even if its dead at this point. This makes no sense to me whatsoever.
Hyde Amendment (restricting taxpayer funding of abortions)
*We have to pay for people who can't afford children but don't get abortions. I don't see a problem with this.
Restrictions on abortions performed at military hospitals
*Why would this be restricted any way?
Restrictions on insurance coverage for abortion for federal employees
*Why would this be restricted any way?
Informed consent laws
*Not sure what this is. If it is what I think it is–a woman should not have to get permission from a man to do what she wants with her body.
Waiting periods
*Why would there be?
Parental consent and notification laws
*This is good, less teen pregnancies.
Health and safety regulations for abortion clinics
*Are you SURE the bill will nullify this? I though abortion clinics were held to the same standards as hospitals… so why would this bill allow for unsafe/unregulated abortion facilities?
Requirements that licensed physicians perform abortions
*Most physicians (or at least the ones who specilize in prenatal etc) know how to do abortions. Because they might need to in instances where the mother would die. Personally though if I was just getting an abortion because my BC failed I wouldn't want someone who didn't believe in choice to do it–they might mess it up or purposefully make it painful.
“Delayed enforcement” laws (banning abortion when Roe v. Wade is overturned and/or the authority to restrict abortion is returned to the states)
*I wasn't aware Roe v. Wade was going to be overturned any time soon if at all.
Bans on partial-birth abortion
*You already mentioned this.
Bans on abortion after viability. FOCA’s apparent attempt to limit post-viability abortions is illusory. Under FOCA, post-viability abortions are expressly permitted to protect the woman’s “health.” Within the context of abortion, “health” has been interpreted so broadly that FOCA would not actually proscribe any abortion before or after viability.
*I think abortion should be legal and easy to obtain if the fetus hasn't developed nerves yet. I believe those develop around 20 weeks? Though if the woman doesn't realize she was pregnant until after that point she should still be able to get one.
Limits on public funding for elective abortions (thus, making American taxpayers fund a procedure that many find morally objectionable)
*I find paying for other people's children morally objectionable but that doesn't stop poor people from popping more kids out. If anything they pop out more than those who can afford kids without tax payer help.
Limits on the use of public facilities (such has public hospitals and medical schools at state universities) for abortions
*Why should this be limited? (Aside from abortions at public facilities might be less safe.)
State and federal legal protections for individual healthcare providers who decline to participate in abortions
*I wouldn't want an abortion done by someone who didn't want to do it. They might muck it up or make it hurt.
Legal protections for Catholic and other religiously-affiliated hospitals who, while providing care to millions of poor and uninsured Americans, refuse to allow abortions within their facilities
*Did it ever occur to you that having children makes you poor? Or at least, more poor.
Notably, pro-abortion groups do not deny FOCA’s draconian *not sure how this qualifies as draconian* impact. For example, Planned Parenthood has explained, "FOCA will supercede anti-choice laws that restrict the right to choose, including laws that prohibit the public funding of abortions for poor women or counseling and referrals for abortions. *Of course this should be funded, abortion is expensive but not nearly as expensive as actually HAVING the kid. Hell, even putting a kid up for adoption is expensive.* Additionally, FOCA will prohibit onerous restrictions on a woman's right to choose, such as mandated delays and targeted and medically unnecessary regulations. *There should not be 'mandated delays' for something like this. The longer the woman has to wait the more dangerous the procedure becomes.*"
Please Sign the Fight FOCA Petition
http://www.fightfoca.com/
*Hell no.
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