Some selected, salient excerpts from the Rapid City Journal on yesterday's appeals court decision clearing the way for enforcement of the 2005 abortion informed consent law.
"The bottom line is if the state Legislature orders a professional to tell the truth, that's not a violation of the First Amendment," Long said.
The 2005 law would make doctors tell women "that the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being." Women also would have to be told they have a right to continue a pregnancy and that abortion may cause women psychological harm, including thoughts of suicide.
Planned Parenthood presented no evidence to oppose the common understanding that a fetus is a living organism while in the womb, the court majority said.
"The State's evidence suggests that the biological sense in which the embryo or fetus is whole, separate, unique and living should be clear in context to a physician," Judge Raymond W. Gruender wrote for the majority.
That really gets to the heart of the matter, doesn't it? The unborn child has, from conception, DNA which is completely unique from that of its mother or father. And that DNA is human. The child also usually has a heartbeat and brain activity by the time many women find out they're pregnant.
It's a separate human being. And the woman only has say-so over the life of her own body, not that of another human being.
1 comments:
Any law ending with "and then you can kill the baby,"
is immoral.
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