While folks are understandably upset about all the awful things in the 2015-17 biennial state budget Republicans in the Legislature have forwarded to Gov. Scott Walker for his signature, there’s still a lot of awful policy being being implemented by Republicans in the Legislature.
Wisconsin Republicans moved within a step Thursday of banning non-emergency abortions at or beyond 20 weeks of pregnancy after the state Assembly approved the prohibition and sent the measure on to Gov. Scott Walker for his signature.
The chamber approved the bill 61-34 after two hours of debate. The Republican-controlled Senate passed the measure in June. Walker, who is expected to announce a bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination on Monday, has promised to sign the proposal but hasn’t said when. His signature would make Wisconsin the 15th state to pass a ban on abortion at 20 weeks or after.
Great timing by Walker; the chief abortionist of the Wisconsin economy, unions, jobs, a living wage, health insurance, a pollution-free environment , safe roads, education, voting rights (especially for Wisconsin citizens of color, the handicapped, elderly, and students), and finally (drum roll please), a budget that reduces debt.
Have you noticed in pre-election periods how candidates like Walker drag out the abortion issue as red meat for the single issue, evangelicals, and some Catholic bishops Catholic lay people who brush aside the fact that the Constitution guarantees a right to our individual faith beliefs and, more importantly, fail to recognize that we are a Republic, not a Theocracy.
I appose abortions and have practiced that belief along with my wife in parenting twelve children, but I leave others to make that choice in accordance with their beliefs and conscience in accordance with our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Too little, if any, concern or conscience is given to the ;pain of the “born” by members of Congress and governors such as Walker since they are sponsored (paid) largely to represent the interest of “unfettered capitalism,” as Pope Francis defines the issue, over the mass of humanity or the “born.”
Too many, such as Walker, hypocritically cry out for the “unborn” for political ;purposes only, totally ignoring the rape or health of women, the unjust wage to workers, the lack of health care for the ailing anf elderly, and the current overwhelmingly economic plight of the “born” and their families.
To use an evangelical term, Walker needs to be “born again.”
Amen, my Blogging Blue brothers and sisters!
I commend you for your beliefs. A well spoken comment on this subject. Can you please tell me exactly what part of this bill would prevent a raped woman from aborting a child that may have been created? Seeing as that is always the line that is thrown out there I would love to know exactly how many rape victims in Wisconsin will now be forced to have babies. I’m thinking exactly zero, but maybe you have other information Regarding that fact.
Franklin, “I would love to know exactly” how many Wisconsin “pro-lifers,” ever save a baby. How many contract with an ob/gyn and their patient to adopt the fetus, pay for the neo-natal care, and then find adoptive parents?
“I’m thinking exactly zero, but maybe you have other information (sic)Regarding that fact.”
Not quite understanding your point. Are you suggesting women Are aborting babies because they fear that they may have a premature delivery that may require a neonatal ICU stay?
My point was simple, rape babies are always used as an excuse for abortion of babies up to full term. It is pretty clear that rape victims aren’t having babies in the United states due to lack of abortions or abortive, pregnancy preventing drugs.
You wrote, “Not quite understanding your point.”
Which part didn’t you understand?
You wrote, “Are you suggesting women Are aborting babies because they fear that they may have a premature delivery that may require a neonatal ICU stay?”
No.
You wrote: “My point was simple,…”
Agree. You want government forcing birth.
You wrote: “…rape babies are always used as an excuse for abortion of babies up to full term.”
You want a death certificate for every miscarriage. There’s no statute of limitations on murder. At anytime, anyone can come forward and say a woman caused her baby’s death by smoking, drinking, ….
“Pregnant woman fights Wisconsin’s fetal protection law”
http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/pregnant-woman-fights-wisconsins-fetal-protection-law-b99127289z1-229077121.html
You wrote, “It is pretty clear that rape victims aren’t having babies in the United states due to lack of abortions or abortive, pregnancy preventing drugs.”
You want to avoid the work needed to actually “save” a baby.
John, you make the point more directly than I in my initial post.
To be blunt, IMO most GOP politicians such as Walker who claim to to be pro-life don’t give a crap about the “unborn” or the abortion issue. Their pandering of voters on this issue as the election cycle begins is all too obvious. One need to only look at Walker’s record on real life social or pro-life issues such as rejecting medicaid and ACA, obstructing,voting rights, denying a living wage, education funding cuts, to reveal his hypocritical stance on being pro-life.
Walker is actually a killer of life in the Wisconsin I was born and raised in.
Walkers so content on appealing to the Christian Right he ignored the fact that the post 20 week ban on abortion would only potentially effect 80 “unborn”. 7000 plus would still be subject to the still existing pre 20 week law. Furthermore, this law will be tested in the courts and several other states have already shot it down. This is a feel good law passed to solicit votes. If Walker was truly against abortion he wouldn’t sacrifice his religious, moral and ethical beliefs (and 7000 babies) for a few votes. Walker is a hypocrite.
trademark,
In any death a medical examiner has to determine the cause-of-death. Then the remains are given a decent burial.
Do you support those same rights for the fetus?
Earth to trademark, it’s already against the law.
“The Rise of Black-Market Organ Trafficking”
http://inpublicsafety.com/2014/04/the-rise-of-black-market-organ-trafficking/
In any death a medical examiner has to determine the cause-of-death. Then the remains are given a decent burial.
Do you support those same rights for the fetus?
What makes you think that the conservatives who just ruled to make “legal,” all dark money in politics and who have just carved out a huge chunk of taxpayer money for private profiteers in the state’s public education system, would not, if they could, be in on black money/dark money in illegal trafficking of human organs?
Check the statistics from the DBA lobby in WI whose polluting, unregulated industrial members just got another $250M tax cut from we the taxpayers of the state and see who makes up the majority of the low paid labor force doing the actual dirty work in their operations. Hint: the industry “owners,” are running short of immigrant laborers.
My daughter’s heart survived a fatal traffic accident and went to a woman in West Virginia at no charge. Ten years later, my family is in contact with and consoled by the “gift of life” given to save another.
@cur, your remarks on this subject are off topic and rotten to the core.
Duane, deepest condolences on your loss.