DGS49
Diamond Member
Wendy Davis is now running for Governor of the Great State of Texas, and her unlikely candidacy is largely fueled by the notoriety she received for filibustering a law (later passed) that would essentially have prohibited third-trimester abortions in Texas.
Roe v. Wade, the infamous USSC decision that gave "Constitutional" protection to abortion said - when you cut through all the crap - that (a) a woman had an unfettered right to get an abortion during the first trimester, (b) the state had a right to regulate abortions during the second trimester, and (c) by the third trimester, when the BABY was arguably viable, "it" became a citizen and couldn't be killed (aborted).
In the mountain of related cases that have followed RvW, the Court eroded the protections for the viable child, and the result is that, as long as there is a doctor somewhere who is willing to claim that the mother is "at risk" from the pregnancy (which is to say, always), a baby can be aborted in most states right up to and including the moment when it is pulled from its nest in the mother's womb and tries to take its first breath.
But medical science has moved on, in spite of the actions of the various courts. Indeed, infants are surviving when coming from the womb (for whatever reason or by whatever procedure) even earlier than the start of the third trimester. Viability, which was key to the writer's opinion in RvW, has been expanded to an earlier time.
Democrats apparently believe that pregnancy is like an infection: it results from unpreventable and uncontrollable factors, rather than from volitional activity by the woman carrying the child. Accordingly, like an infection, the woman should have the right to be "treated" for it at every moment until the baby independently takes its first free breath outside the womb.
Wendy Davis has been asked in recent weeks when she believes that (a) human life begins, and (b) the fetus actually becomes a "person" with legal rights. She has predictably refused to answer such questions, choosing instead to drone on with Democrat pablum about the "rights" of the woman (mother).
A majority of women in this country - believe it or not - agree with the position of Roe v. Wade: that unless there is a serious medical danger to the mother (that she could DIE from childbirth), third trimester abortions should be prohibited.
Democrats like to say that Republicans are "out of touch" with the "people" of this country. Who is out of touch on this issue? The Democrat leadership is totally off the reservation.
Roe v. Wade, the infamous USSC decision that gave "Constitutional" protection to abortion said - when you cut through all the crap - that (a) a woman had an unfettered right to get an abortion during the first trimester, (b) the state had a right to regulate abortions during the second trimester, and (c) by the third trimester, when the BABY was arguably viable, "it" became a citizen and couldn't be killed (aborted).
In the mountain of related cases that have followed RvW, the Court eroded the protections for the viable child, and the result is that, as long as there is a doctor somewhere who is willing to claim that the mother is "at risk" from the pregnancy (which is to say, always), a baby can be aborted in most states right up to and including the moment when it is pulled from its nest in the mother's womb and tries to take its first breath.
But medical science has moved on, in spite of the actions of the various courts. Indeed, infants are surviving when coming from the womb (for whatever reason or by whatever procedure) even earlier than the start of the third trimester. Viability, which was key to the writer's opinion in RvW, has been expanded to an earlier time.
Democrats apparently believe that pregnancy is like an infection: it results from unpreventable and uncontrollable factors, rather than from volitional activity by the woman carrying the child. Accordingly, like an infection, the woman should have the right to be "treated" for it at every moment until the baby independently takes its first free breath outside the womb.
Wendy Davis has been asked in recent weeks when she believes that (a) human life begins, and (b) the fetus actually becomes a "person" with legal rights. She has predictably refused to answer such questions, choosing instead to drone on with Democrat pablum about the "rights" of the woman (mother).
A majority of women in this country - believe it or not - agree with the position of Roe v. Wade: that unless there is a serious medical danger to the mother (that she could DIE from childbirth), third trimester abortions should be prohibited.
Democrats like to say that Republicans are "out of touch" with the "people" of this country. Who is out of touch on this issue? The Democrat leadership is totally off the reservation.
