Meet PRENDA... The Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination (PRENDA) Act

[WillyT]

Women’s advocacy group calls race-based abortion bill ‘a disgrace’
By Eric W. Dolan - RawStory
Thursday, February 16, 2012 19:51 EST

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The National Partnership for Women & Families on Thursday condemned the House Judiciary Committee after it passed a bill to ban sex-based or race-based abortions. Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) introduced the Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination (PRENDA) Act to the U.S. House in December. The legislation could subject a doctor to up to five years in prison for failing to determine if race or sex was a factor in a woman’s decision to terminate a pregnancy.

“Today’s actions by the House Judiciary Committee were a disgrace and a betrayal,” Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families, said in a statement.

“The legislation to criminalize abortion on the basis of sex and race is a sham; it is nothing more than an attempt to make it more difficult for women of color to seek abortion care and imprison doctors who provide that care.”

“Appropriating the language of the civil rights movement and the names of its leaders does not give you its moral authority,” Ness continued. “The move to outlaw sex- and race-selective abortion in the United States is gratuitous and unnecessary, which is why many of the leading and most respected civil rights organizations have lined up against this bill.”

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More: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/16/womens-advocacy-group-calls-race-based-abortion-bill-a-disgrace/

[redqueen]

1. Sweet Jesus

What a bunch of idiocy.

subject a doctor to up to five years in prison for failing to determine if race or sex was a factor in a woman’s decision to terminate a pregnancy.

So he asks her, she signs a paper saying it's not a factor, and ... what's the point of this supposed to be?

[sinkingfeeling]

2. And how, exactly, is a doctor to determine the factors of a woman's decision? Will our

medical schools now hold classes in divination? Calling Professor Trelawney!

[HappyMe]

3. I don't understand.

This makes not a lick of sense to me at all.

[WillyT]

4. No It Doesn't, But...

I'm pretty sure Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglas are both currently spinning in their graves.

Talk about you projection!

[HappyMe]

5. Spin right out of their graves

and haunt the hell out of them.