James L. Rudd
Editor, The Covenant News
Legislative Analysis Update
In evaluating the abortion news and reports from around the nation we see lawmakers still pressing forward with legislation to establish government regulations on the way children are murdered by abortion. They state how, when, where, on whom, by whom, or with whose permission murder may be carried out. Contrary to what people are being told, the legislation reported on in the news is not Pro-Life.
The 18th century philosopher William James said, "There is nothing so absurd but if you repeat it often enough people will believe it." One of the most tragic absurdities of our day is that people have repeatedly been told this legislation is "pro-life" and they actually believe it is. We have allowed ourselves to be lead by popular phraseology and become part of a "group-think" instead of focusing on and really understanding what is, in fact, going on.
32 States With Murder Notification or Murder Consent Laws
It was reported that thirty-two states--apparently not interested in making murder by abortion illegal--have instead already enacted murder regulations that require grandparents to be notified before their grandchildren are murdered, or, they require grandparent permission be obtained to murder their grandchild by abortion. Of these 32 states, 14 require that one or both parents of pregnant teenagers be notified before their grandchildren are murdered, and 18 states require that one or both parents of pregnant teenagers give their "permission" for their grandchildren to be murdered. No reports have been seen on official statistics of just how many grandparents this involved, or how they mutually responded to these barbarous regulations and subsequently took part in the murder of their grandchildren since the regulations went into effect.
Transporters To Get Interstate Compact
Abortion regulators in Congress introduced a bill stating that if a person wants to transport pregnant teenagers across state lines to help them murder their children by abortion in other states, then the person doing the transporting must comply ONLY to the parental notification or consent laws of the state in which the girl resides. Not thinking ahead to the day when "Abortion-Free" states start prosecuting all murder cases occurring within their jurisdictions, the bill says NOTHING concerning individuals transporting pregnant teenagers out of those states which, of course, would not have "parental notification" or "consent" laws.
Protection Of Unborn Children, But Then There's Mom
A Congressman has introduced a bill that if passed into law will seek to prosecute any third party who engages in conduct to kill an "unborn child" without mom's consent first. The bill says the third party "will be punished for attempting to kill or intentionally kill an unborn child." However, it says, "the death penalty shall not be imposed." Then the bill specifically provides for the murder of children by abortion saying that "Nothing" in this bill "shall be construed to permit the prosecution of any person for conduct relating to an abortion for which the consent of the pregnant woman, or a person authorized by law to act on her behalf, has been obtained or for which such consent is implied by law."
Make The Children Pay For The Crimes Of Their Fathers
Maryland lawmakers introduced a bill that will require abortion hospitals or other abortion facilities to make available to women who report being raped "emergency" abortifacients in order to abort any child conceived before implantation in the womb. No word on lawmakers demanding the death penalty for rapists in the state of Maryland.
Get Info On The Day Before You Do It
The Arkansas Senate unanimously approved a bill to require mothers who want to murder their children by abortion to receive information about the alternatives to this "choice" and the medical risks to them at least a day before Arkansas abortionists assist them in murdering their children.
Walking In The Sin Of His Father
An abortion regulator in Arkansas introduced a bill to place procedural controls defining just what kind of abortion doctors can prescribe the baby pesticide RU-486 to mothers who want to murder their babies in that state. If this sounds familiar, it should. The lawmaker who proposed this state abortion regulation is the son of a U.S. Senator who introduced a similar abortion regulation in the U.S. Congress.
Limiting The Definition Of "Person"
The Arkansas House approved a bill that would include the term "viable fetus" in a limited definition of a "person" for wrongful-death civil lawsuits. The bill provides that those who file wrongful-death lawsuits must show that the death was caused by a "criminal act," "neglect" or "disregard" by a defendant. Arkansas Law -- State Code Annotated 20-16-702, dealing with the viability of fetuses -- says a "viable fetus" shall not be presumed viable before the end of the 25th week of the pregnancy. In other words, what this bill does is limit the definition of a "person" starting at the point where a state says a "fetus" is "viable" -- in this case at the end of his 25th week of life in the womb. This runs totally contrary to our Nation's founding document that states, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." The only time we are all "created equal" --"endowed" with "certain unalienable Rights" -- is at the moment of conception and not at the 25th week of our life in the womb.
Make Everybody Pay Higher Abortion Premiums
Some New York lawmakers were pretty upset when they found out that 27 percent of the state's health care businesses were not providing full coverage for every kind of abortifacient contraceptive available on the market today. So, to give prospective mothers a greater choice of ways to murder their children, lawmakers introduced a bill that will "force" the hospitals, businesses, and insurers to cover all abortifacient contraceptives state health plans do not cover. Some "faith-based" health care providers want a "conscience" clause added to give them the "option" not to pay for the abortifacient contraceptives.
We Don't Understand What The Problem Is
Colorado lawmakers shot down a proposed abortion regulation that would have allowed mothers to murder their children up to 23 weeks of pregnancy, but after the 23rd week the regulation would have made it punishable for pregnant mothers to murder their children by abortion in Colorado. The regulation also would have "levied" criminal penalties against doctors who assist mothers in murdering their children ONLY after the 23rd week. One abortion regulator, who apparently does not understand that it is the responsibility of state lawmakers to recognize the personhood of the child in the womb at conception, said, "Right now, there are no restrictions in Colorado on abortion up until birth."
Jim Rudd
Editor, The Covenant News
email: editor@covenantnews.com