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Abortion Hasn't Been 'Constitutionally Protected' for 18 Years!
Second in a series of excerpts from the pro se brief being submitted by Scott Roeder to answer how the Necessity Defense justifies his shooting of Wichita's late term abortionist, George Tiller, May 31. Slight changes are made to make the excerpt more readable to non-lawyers. Technical citations are simplified or omitted.
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China's Forced Abortions
During Advent, Christians love to tell their children the story of Mary, great with child, arriving in Bethlehem to give birth to her Son. It's a heartwarming image. But for many Chinese women, it's one that brings back horrible memories. Memories of their own pregnancies that ended, not in birth, but in the death of their babies through forced abortion. A Chinese woman called Wujian—not her real name—recently testified before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission about China's brutal one-child policy. Four years ago, Wujian became pregnant with an "illegal" baby—one conceived without a birth permit.
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Pro-life leaders reject new Senate 'compromise' on abortion
Democratic majority leaders in the US Senate have presented a new amendment to the proposed health-care reform bill, hoping to satisfy concerns about abortion subsidies. But pro-life leaders said the proposal is "unacceptable," and a Democratic lawmaker who might hold the deciding vote said that the new language "isn't sufficient."
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Spanish lawmakers approve new liberal abortion law
A new law allowing abortion on demand during the first trimester of pregnancy was approved by Spain's Congress of Deputies on December 17, on a 184-158 vote. The proposal, backed by Prime Minister José Luis Zapatero, now goes to the Senate, where approval is expected.
The new law would replace a policy that allows abortion only in cases involving rape, fetal deformity, or a danger to the health of the mother. Although in practice that last provision has been interpreted to allow early abortion in nearly all cases—with thousands of women saying that a continued rregnancy would endanger their emotional welfare-- the new bill formally embraces a policy of abortion on demand.
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