Just so you know I stand on the issue, readers.
I'll be giving it all the attention it is due.
"Neb. to require mental health, other screenings before abortions; Critics contend measure will dissuade doctors" by Nate Jenkins, Associated Press | April 13, 2010
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska is expected to become the first state to require doctors to screen women for mental and physical problems before performing abortions.
Lawmakers gave final approval yesterday to a measure that would require the screenings. Governor Dave Heineman’s office said he will sign it today.
Lawmakers are also considering a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks, based on the assertion that fetuses feel pain. Heineman has indicated he supports that measure, as well....
If both are signed into law, abortion-rights backers are expected to challenge them in court.
That is where EVERYTHING ENDS UP over here in AmeriKa!
"Nebraska governor signs landmark abortion measures; Act banned at 20 weeks Mental health check required" By Nate Jenkins, Associated Press | April 14, 2010
LINCOLN, Neb. — A national abortion-rights group already appeared to be girding for a legal challenge, calling the ban after 20 weeks “flatly unconstitutional’’ because it is based on the assertion that fetuses feel pain, not on the ability of a fetus to survive outside the womb.
“It absolutely cannot survive a challenge without a change to three decades of court rulings,’’ said Nancy Northup, the president of the Center for Reproductive Rights. “Courts have been chipping away at abortion rights . . . this would be like taking a huge hacksaw to the rights.’’
Bad choice of words for an abortionist. Don't you mean coat hanger?
The law focusing on late-term abortions is designed to shut down one of the few doctors in the nation who performs them....
Oh, paper and MSM made it sound like it was all of 'em!
The law could lead to changes in state laws across the country if upheld by the courts, said Mary Spaulding Balch, legislative director for National Right to Life....
The fetal-pain bill is partially meant to shut down Dr. LeRoy Carhart, who attracted attention after his friend and fellow late-term abortion provider Dr. George Tiller was shot to death by an abortion foe in Kansas last year.
Kansas, worried that he might move there, has passed new bills that are awaiting action from Governor Mark Parkinson, an abortion-rights Democrat....
Attempts to restrict abortion across the country aren’t unusual — in Oklahoma, for example, new laws on abortions have been enacted this year, including a ban on abortions based on the gender of the child and tighter restrictions on the use of the RU-486 abortion pill....
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"Legal fights await abortion law; Court injunction likely to block Neb. measure for some time" by Nate Jenkins, Associated Press | April 19, 2010
LINCOLN, Neb. — It has been called a groundbreaking law, but a measure approved in Nebraska last week that changes the rationale for abortion bans probably will not go into effect anytime soon.
Which is why I am not spending a lot of time on it.
Instead, abortion opponents are hoping it will become the most important case on abortion to reach the US Supreme Court in years....
The long trip to the high court — if it indeed lands there — combined with the time it takes for a ruling there, could mean a final decision on the law is several years away....
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Also see: Abortion: The Kosher Slaughter
Now I see why the paper is "pro-woman's rights."
