Too strong a word?
Would you allow a woman who is 9 months pregnant with a healthy baby abort her child the day before the baby's due date? FOCA would.
Would you remove the safety and health regulations that keep abortion clinics clean and sanitary? FOCA would.
Would you allow partial-birth abortions on still living fetuses? FOCA would.
If a physician, nurse or Hospital conscientiously objects to abortion, would you force them to perform abortions? FOCA would.
Would you refuse a medical student their degree if they refused to peform an abortion? FOCA would.
Would you allow your minor child to have an abortion without your knowledge? FOCA would.
Would you pay taxes to fund unlimited and limitless abortion? FOCA would force you to.
Don't believe me.
Read for yourself here, here, here, and especially, here.
What is the Practical Impact of FOCA?
In elevating abortion to a fundamental right, FOCA poses an undeniable and irreparable danger to common-sense laws supported by a majority of Americans. Among the more than 550 federal and state laws that FOCA would nullify are:
- Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003
- Hyde Amendment (restricting taxpayer funding of abortions)
- Restrictions on abortions performed at military hospitals
- Legal protections for Catholic and other religiously-affiliated hospitals who, while providing care to millions of poor and uninsured Americans, refuse to allow abortions within their facilities
- Restrictions on insurance coverage for abortion for federal employees
- State and federal legal protections for individual healthcare providers who decline to participate in abortions
- Informed consent laws
- Waiting periods
- Limits on the use of public facilities (such has public hospitals and medical schools at state universities) for abortions
- Parental consent and notification laws
- Health and safety regulations for abortion clinics
- Requirements that licensed physicians perform abortions
- “Delayed enforcement” laws (banning abortion when Roe v. Wade is overturned and/or the authority to restrict abortion is returned to the states)
- Bans on partial-birth abortion
- Limits on public funding for elective abortions (thus, making American taxpayers fund a procedure that many find morally objectionable)
- Bans on abortion after viability. FOCA’s apparent attempt to limit post-viability abortions is illusory. Under FOCA, post-viability abortions are expressly permitted to protect the woman’s “health.” Within the context of abortion, “health” has been interpreted so broadly that FOCA would not actually proscribe any abortion before or after viability.
Notably, pro-abortion groups do not deny FOCA’s draconian impact. For example, Planned Parenthood has explained, "FOCA will supercede anti-choice laws that restrict the right to choose, including laws that prohibit the public funding of abortions for poor women or counseling and referrals for abortions. Additionally, FOCA will prohibit onerous restrictions on a woman's right to choose, such as mandated delays and targeted and medically unnecessary regulations."
Both the Senate and House are preparing to pass this abomination and Obama has stated that it is the first act he'll sign.
Again, I am not against choice but FOCA is the single most radical abortion legislation ever considered in the United States and would shut down any legitamite debate on abortion.
Contact your Senator AND your Representatives and tell them to NOT vote for FOCA.
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I am moved beyond words at your blog. Thank you for speaking up against this EVIL, put mildly I might add, legislation being considered in the U.S.
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