Promoters call it the Freedom of Choice Act, which is actually true. If passed, it would retroactively and forever free the abortion industry to infinity and beyond from every "federal, state and local statute, ordinance, regulation, administrative order, decision, policy [and] practice," encumbering abortion in any way whatsoever.Pro-aborts reintroduced FOCA immediately following the Supreme Court's April 18 decision upholding the Partial Birth Abortion Ban with expressions of financial panic not seen since the stock market crashed in 1929.
Pro-lifers have aborted FOCA several times since the 1980s, but terrified pro-abortion politicians and abortion-industry thugs fearing for their deathlihood seized on the Supreme partial-birth abortion decision to attempt a do-over.
Public relations aficionados that they are, Planned Parenthood and other industry leeches reassured us in press statements they intended not just to rescue partial-birth abortion for America but also every other equally "seismic" and "grim" Supreme Court anti-abortion decision that might be made ever after....
Under FOCA, no abortion procedure could be touched with a 10-foot legal crochet hook.... This would have to include Everything Delivered But The Big Toe Abortions, which Sen. Barbara Boxer infamously refused to say should be illegal during an enlightening exchange with then-Sen. Rick Santorum on the Senate floor in 1999....
Continue reading my column today, "The Forced Abortion Act," on WorldNetDaily.com.
As a Catholic, I've been taught that the taking of human life at any stage of development is a sin. As an individual, I can somewhat see the need for early (1st semester and before) abortions on a case-by-case basis. Exceptions might include if the mother's health was severely threatened by the pregnancy or perhaps in rape cases.
What's disheartening to me more so is the rate of unplanned pregnancies; especially amongst teenagers. If we want to reduce the frequency of abortions, then we should work on preventing unplanned pregnancies; protected sex or abstinence comes to mind. It seems to me loosening restrictions on abortions would only exasperate this situation. As the value of human life declines, so does the impetus for responsible sexual behavior!
The moral decline in America over the past few decades is very worrisome to me!