The "Freedom of Choice
Act" -- a Blank Check
for Pro-Abortionists
-- Part Two of Two
It took me probably
half a dozen times viewing a speech pro-abortion Sen. Barack Obama gave
to PPFA's political arm last year before I finally figured out what was
gnawing at me.
At the July 2007,
meeting of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Obama was asked how he
was going "to make sure that the judicial nominees that you will
inevitably be able to pick are true to the core tenets of Roe v. Wade."
A softball question, if ever there was one.
Then it dawned on me
that the first words out of his mouth had nothing to do with judicial
nominees.
"Well, the first thing
I'd do as president," Obama said, "is sign the Freedom of Choice Act."
That's how important FOCA is to Planned Parenthood and Barack Obama, a
co-sponsor.
(You can watch the
video at www.imoneinamillion.com/video.php?candidate=obama
and you can read the transcript at
http://lauraetch.googlepages.com/barackobamabeforeplannedparenthoodaction.)
So, why is the
Abortion Establishment so invested in FOCA? You can read a thorough
explanation at
http://nrlc.org/FOCA/LawmakersProposeFOCA.html. Let me quickly quote
some of the key points.
#1. "The
lawmakers proposing the legislation, and groups endorsing it, repeatedly
emphasized that the bill would, among other things, completely nullify
the national ban on partial-birth abortion that the Supreme Court upheld
on April 18, zoo7, in Gonzales v. Carhart."
#2. "The heart
of the bill is a ban that would nullify all of the major types of
pro-life laws that the Supreme Court has said are permissible under
Roe v. Wade, including the ban on partial-birth abortions and bans
on government funding of abortion."
#3. From a PPFA
factsheet, we learn, "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. … Parental consent or notification statutes
have been used as a tool to deny access to abortion services for minors.
When such laws deny or interfere with the ability of minors to access
abortion services, they would violate FOCA."
#4. FOCA would
obliterate "conscience laws"; ensure that medical personnel other than
licensed physicians may perform abortions; and offer a blank check to
pro-abortionists to sue government agencies on the grounds that they
something/anything it is doing "discriminate[s]" against abortion.
It is worth
remembering that when FOCA was first proposed in the 1990s proponents
"often tried to deny some of its more radical effects – effects that
they have already admitted with respect to the new bill, such as the
invalidation of all restrictions on government funding of abortion."
No wonder a
"President" Obama would make signing FOCA his first act.
