Rep. Greg Delleney of Chester, the General Assembly’s most outspoken abortion foe, gained initial approval Thursday to require doctors to save any fetus that survives an abortion.
The bill, which unanimously passed a House subcommittee Delleney chairs, is aimed at rewriting state law to recognize the “personhood” of the unborn.
If the bill becomes law, a person would be redefined as anyone at any stage of development who is breathing, has a heartbeat, a pulsation of the umbilical cord or definite movement of voluntary muscles after birth, whether that be by labor, Cesarean section or abortion.
Delleney says it has wider implications than just for abortion clinics.
“This might be a child born at home, in a hospital, in the back of a taxi or an abortion clinic,” he said. “It gives them the same rights that any other breathing person has.”
My fear is that this advance might stimulate presidential pushing for the Freedom of Choice Act. I hope not. But I do fear that this advance might bring about a nationwide reverse in the pro-life cause.
Be careful, South Carolina. This is, in substance, the same legislation that Our Leader voted against in committee when He was in the Illinois State Senate–on the basis that it was a backdoor way to repeal Roe v. Wade. If you go to far with this, your Legislature might be branded enemies of the People, and have to be dealt with in a way consistent with the advance of the People’s Revolution!!!
On the other hand, Obama’s real colors (no pun intended) would be revealed. I found the majority of people I spoke to regarding this issue, both before and after the election, specifically those who favored Obama, were totally ignorant of his voting record on this issue in the Illinois Senate. Most were astounded. I don’t know if he could get away with opposing it in front of the whole world.
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‘…specifically those who favored Obama, were totally ignorant of his voting record on this issue in the Illinois Senate.’
And whose fault was that? Which estate consistently shielded him from full scrutiny by the, er, Press and TV?