Bush Backs Abortion Measure--needs to keep his Right base happy

[rodeodance]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/28/AR2005042801943.html


Bush Backs Abortion Measure

He Urges Senate to Enact House Bill on Parental Notification

By Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 29, 2005; Page A04

President Bush is urging the Senate to take up a bill passed by the House this week that makes it a federal crime -- complete with possible fines and jail sentences -- for doctors or other adults to help patients under 18 evade parental-notification requirements by crossing state lines for an abortion.

Opponents call it "the grandmother incarceration act" for the penalties that could be imposed on non-parents who travel with minors to end a pregnancy. But conservative groups say the measure is a way to ensure that the will of state legislatures is carried out, because it is now possible for a young woman to travel from one state to another with less restrictive laws to avoid having to tell a parent she plans to have an abortion.

...House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.) said during the floor debate that the bill is "vital to parental rights."

Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council and father of three daughters, said in an interview that the bill was one of his group's top priorities for the year and called it "a recognition of parental authority."

Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, countered that the bill is "a bureaucratic nightmare" and is part of a multi-track strategy by conservatives that includes packing the judiciary with judges sympathetic to their views.......

[sandnsea]

1. Dead Daughters Act

That's what I call it. But here's the illusion again, I don't know how I keep missing this stuff. "a recognition of parental authority." I just got through telling somebody last week that it isn't about religion, particularly with the rural west. It's about parents feeling their authority is being undermined by giving kids more rights than they have. Bills like this don't really do anything to help parents with daily family challenges, they just give the illusion of supporting families. That's why rural people support them. Alot of rural people wouldn't really want to put their daughters at risk, if they thought about it for 2 seconds. Which they don't, because nobody is challenging them to think about it. This gets support because it appeases the need for parents to feel respected, not because of the abortion aspect.

[Megahurtz]

2. FUCK YOU GEORGE BUSH!!!!!

:argh:

[renaissanceguy]

3. Well said.

http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues.21518002

[AndyTiedye]

4. So Now Pregnant Girls Will Have to Travel Hundreds of Miles ALONE

We all hope they all get safely to their out-of-state abortion clinics and home again,
but we know that hope will not protect them
either from the forced-parenthood movement
or from the predators out there (who are often the reason for a girl
needing an abortion in the first place).

Some of them are rape victims. A long trip alone could give their
attacker another chance at them.

If a child is a ward of the state, "parental notification" translates
into a veto power over your abortion by any Fundie in the bureaucracy
who wants to score a point for his church. That is currently playing
out in Florida for one unfortunate girl who is being forced to become
a mother.

[Solly Mack]

5. This quote speaks volumes about their mentality

"But conservative groups say the measure is a way to ensure that the will of state legislatures is carried out, because it is now possible for a young woman to travel from one state to another with less restrictive laws ..."

So if you go to another state, your home states wants to be able to have control over you while you're there...so you are now under the laws of both states...

What control freaks!