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Enactment Day for "Pain-Capable Unborn
Child Protection Act" T-Minus Three and Counting Part One of Three By Dave Andrusko Good evening, and thanks once again for reading Today's News & Views. Tomorrow I will write about the format you said you wanted. Part Two brings to light two more deaths related to the use of the abortifacient RU486. Part Three is about the voter rebellion against Obama from people who previously voiced support. Over at National Right to Life News Today (www.nationalrighttolifenews.org), David Prentice writes about the first human experiment using embryonic stem cells. We also talk about the fear that Democrats have that pro-abortion females may be defeated in waves this November. Please send your comments on Today's News & Views and National Right to Life News Today to daveandrusko@gmail.com. If you like, join those who are following me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/daveha. It's been my pleasure to write a ton of stories about Nebraska's historic "Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act." I will again, today, after beginning with the lead story from the October issue of Nebraska RTL's newsletter. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"In April, the Nebraska Legislature passed LB 1103, which bans abortions at 20 weeks and beyond based upon medical documentation of an unborn baby feeling pain at that gestation. When LB 1103 was going through the Legislature, abortion advocates hinted strongly that a legal challenge would be posed to thwart implementation of the law. At this writing, with the enactment date of October 15th [the day the bill goes into effect], it is not anticipated that any legal challenge will be mustered. Apparently, the abortion industry does not want to risk LB 1103 going up before the U.S. Supreme Court, thus replacing viability with a new standard of pain. Their strategy instead seems to be battling this new legislation state-by-state, according to National Right to Life State Legislative Director Mary Spaulding Balch, who worked closely with Speaker Mike Flood to get LB 1103 passed. This is a pro-life victory as this legislation will take off like wildfire in state legislatures just as the partial-birth abortion ban was passed in many states. And, most importantly, this country will be exposed to the medical documentation that unborn children do feel pain when aborted and those children should be protected by law." Let me begin my offering my congratulations to Nebraska RTL, and its executive director Julie Albin-Schmit, and to NRLC State Legislative Director Mary Spaulding Balch, JD. What a duo! For legislation to be labeled "historic," it doesn't necessarily imply an almost impossibly steep hill to climb, only that it is precedent setting. LB 1103 certainly is the latter, but also qualifies for the former. No matter how pro-life your state may be, when pro-abortionists warp into hyper-hyperbole drive, people who ought to know better can get pulled along by the draft. When I first wrote about LB 1103, I remember thinking "what are the odds?" First, that the bill would be enacted (see above). Second, that pro-abortionists would risk challenging the law (see below). At the time at least one pro-abortion advocacy group appeared to be licking its chops in anticipation. ''If some of these other anti-abortion bills have been chipping away at Roe v. Wade, this takes an ax to it,'' Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), told the Associated Press (AP) on April 13. "It absolutely cannot survive a challenge without a change to three decades of court rulings." And there was more from CRR. Until Mary Balch reminded me, I had forgotten the letter CRR had written Gov. Dave Heineman, urging him to veto the "Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act." The list of "horribles" was as lengthy as the threat to sue was hard to miss. "A key part of our mission is ensuring that women throughout the United States have meaningful access to high-quality, comprehensive productive health care services," wrote Jordan Goldberg and Cynthia Soohoo. "As part of that mission, we have litigated cases all over the United States that secure the rights of women to have a safe and legal abortion, including in Nebraska." So, take THAT, Gov. Heineman. You have been forewarned. But that was then…. Nebraska RTL and Mary Balch are much more knowledgeable about what may happen than I am. Assuming the pro-abortionists sheath their swords on this one, you can bet they'll come out swinging as this legislation is introduced, state by state. Why? For two reasons. First, contrary to all the nonsense you hear from them, there is no such thing as an abortion that should not be allowed. Remember, these are the same folks who did not blanche at partial-birth abortions, as grisly a "procedure" as you can imagine this side of Dante's Inferno. They used all kinds of diversionary tactics (they don't really exist; the unborn is anesthetized and doesn't feel anything; they are as rare as hen's teeth, etc., etc.). But in the final analysis they refused to draw the line even at puncturing holes in the skulls of large unborn babies and vacuuming out their brains. Likewise, as they battle us in the states they will pretend that we don't know what we do know--that at 20 weeks, the unborn child is capable of experiencing mind-numbing pain. And they won't quibble about a week here or a week there. They will pony up absolutely absurd studies like the one that came out of Great Britain that essentially said there is NO point prior to birth that the child can REALLY experience pain. Second, it's the principle of the thing. Nobody should ever be able to tell anyone what they can do "with their own bodies." If in the process of protecting that "right" somebody else's body is torn to smithereens, hey, that's the way the cookie crumbles. What a bunch. How DO they sleep at night? |
