Republicans introduce two more bills to ban abortions at 20 weeks
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Minnesota Republicans introduced two more bills on Thursday to ban abortions “at or after 20 weeks gestational age,” bringing the total number of bills banning various aspects of abortion to eight. Four would eliminate state funding for abortion services, and four more would prevent women from having abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
Introducing the Senate bill, SF711, were Senate Finance Chair Claire Robling of Jordan, Senate Local Government Chair Ray Vandeveer of Forest Lake, Sen. Sean Nienow of Cambridge, Sen. Ben Kruse of Brooklyn Park, and Sen. David Brown of Becker.
The House bill, HF1042, was introduced by House Agriculture and Rural Development Policy and Finance Chair Rod Hamilton, Rep. Mary Liz Holberg of Lakeville, Rep. Dan Fabian of Roseau, Rep. Chris Swedzinski of Ghent, and Rep. Debra Kiel of Crookston.
The previous bills have the support of Republican leadership in the House and Senate; House Majority Leader Matt Dean of Dellwood and House Speaker Kurt Zellers of Maple Grove sponsored the 20-week ban, and Sen. David Hann of Eden Prairie, who serves as Assistant Majority Leader and chair of the Health and Human Services Committee, Sen. Michele Fischbach of Paynesville who is President of the Senate, and Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch have all introduced a ban on taxpayer funding for abortion.
On the ban on abortions after 20 weeks, Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota said in a statement:
Not every pregnancy ends the way a family hopes it will. Some end in miscarriage, sometimes the mother develops serious complications. And sometimes she finds out there’s something seriously wrong with the pregnancy
This legislation bans safe medical options for a woman in this difficult situation and would have a devastating impact on a woman facing serious complications after her first trimester of pregnancy.
Abortion is a complex, deeply personal decision that a woman makes in consultation with her doctor, her family and trusted loved ones and advisers based on her unique medical situation. Women and families know their unique circumstances best and need to be able to make personal medical decisions, often very difficult ones, without government interference.
Though the legislation would ban abortions after 20 weeks, Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life said the bill is about reducing pain associated with abortions.
“For far too long, Minnesota’s abortionists have been inflicting unconscionable suffering on unborn babies by killing them when they are already extraordinarily developed and pain-sensitive,” Scott Fischbach, Executive Director of Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life said in a statement. The group is pushing for all eight bills.
He added, “It is illegal to treat animals in such a brutal way; this bill will finally protect unborn children at 20 weeks and older from the torturous pain of abortion.”
12 Comments
Comment posted March 10, 2011 @ 3:58 pm
Clearly America is failing to confront radical Christianity.
Praise Jebus, God hates women’s rights, Amen.
Comment posted March 10, 2011 @ 11:08 pm
How is all thisn time wasting crating jobs???
Every damn Republican running for office in this state vowed that JOBS was their #1 priority.
LIARS!!!!
Comment posted March 11, 2011 @ 7:49 am
There are no jobs to be found in women’s wombs. NONE.
Comment posted March 11, 2011 @ 4:20 pm
Abortion bills 8, jobs bills 0. Too bad it isn’t campaign time. That would be the campaign ad.
Comment posted March 14, 2011 @ 12:23 pm
For decades, liberal news media have been able to strangle, smother and spike news stories they didn’t like; defining what “news” was and what it wasn’t. Objectivity is often sacrificed for subjective relevance.
A majority of news coverage related to abortion and the pro-life movement is spun and framed to reflect a political template. Civil, peaceful, massive public demonstrations in defense of life are habitually ignored. The growing majority status and cultural impact of said movement fails a media litmus test of relevance as well.
Regardless, the scale of death over 38 years is staggering (50 million) and is relevant. Individuals, who are marginalized, questioned on personal motivation and face contempt for defending unborn life, are relevant.
Factual, scientific evidence – including heartbeat, sleep patterns, gender, the feeling of inflicted pain, 3-D ultrasound and many others – rarely challenged, are relevant.
Unable to repudiate this relevancy, rebuttals generally rely on rhetorical justifications or rare circumstance; designed to undercut any compelling empathy for, or any meritorious value of the unborn human being.
Roe vs. Wade is crumbling under the weight of its antiquated ignorance – perpetually frozen to 1973 understanding and knowledge.
Information and images, able to pierce media filters, starkly remind us of what’s been tolerated, encouraged and subsidized; relevantly identifying the unjust denial of a fundamental, inalienable right from which all other rights flow.
Ignorance is not bliss……it’s about time that the huge lie of abortion be exposed for the grizzly reality that it is.
Comment posted March 14, 2011 @ 9:21 pm
“For decades, liberal news media have been able to strangle…”
See, one does not have to read any more that you are either divorced from reality, or are so far off the deep end that conservative is liberal to you.
You must think that women (and couples!!) are really too stupid to not know what they are doing, and that they are not moral beings capable of making moral decisions (yes, even life and death choices).
I say that is the root of the persons seeking to “reduce” women by introducing laws like this.
Comment posted March 15, 2011 @ 4:07 pm
It’s strange that people think abortion is a modern idea.
Abortion through herbs and techniques were happening long before the upstart christians came around.
Population control is already a problem in many countries and is considered a world problem.
In China it was thought the more people the powerfull they would be. When they out grew their food 20 million people died of starvation over a 5 year period.
I am getting pretty tired of the chrstian right and their insideous push to control the masses with BS.
Comment posted March 15, 2011 @ 5:38 pm
Much of the same justifications have been used to eliminate “human problems” in the past. Those pesky living, unique human beings..the reason why death is needed in the abortion procedure. Resort to name calling, questioning motivation, blah, blah, blah and avoid the death of the baby as much as you can. The innate value of human life has been “redefined” by the left in subjective worth.
Slavery has been around for a long time too. What you call BS is simply the stark REALITY of killing. Denial, denial, denial doesn’t change the massive slaughter that’s occurred under the name of “choice.” Again, medical knowledge and facts that strike fear into the 1970′s mentality is a huge threat to the hard-lefties.
Comment posted March 15, 2011 @ 9:22 pm
You’d think that people like RJO would be all in favor of family planning, but it’s a safe assumption they are more interested in punishing “immoral” women.
Comment posted March 16, 2011 @ 11:57 am
I do not have stats but I beleive its safe to say that religion is the highest cause of unatural death.
My gawd is bigger than your gawd.
Comment posted March 16, 2011 @ 12:53 pm
Again, “Paul V” demonstrates said original points of shallow rebuttals based on ignorance of fact – that if lefties can’t win on fact or substance, they resort to name calling, character assassination, ans spinning the justification wheel of “oh yeah…this isn’t as bad as”…all meant to distract and confuse.
Through in anti-Christian/anti-religious bigotry within the post-script and…..the illusion is complete. Pathetic. And the death continues…on average 4-thousand everyday, nationwide.
Almost forgot about “Dave”…..instead of refuting points, once again assumed (first three letters says it all) analysis based on extremist leftist understanding and…..character assassination time!
Abolitionists faced persecution…..today, same garbage, different group trying to defend the “right” to destroy what is sadly viewed as human “property”…the unborn human being.
Comment posted March 18, 2011 @ 8:21 pm
Lame rebuttal. Relax. Focus. Think. Think some more. Then, maybe, try again.
So when the guy says “He added, “It is illegal to treat animals in such a brutal way…blah,blah,blah” is he really saying it is illegal to perform an abortion on and animal after 20 weeks?
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