19 States Pass 60 Pro-Life
Laws in 2016 to Save Babies from Abortion
National
Micaiah Bilger Dec 27, 2016 | 4:49PM
Washington, DC
Pro-life
lawmakers in 19 states succeeded in passing more than 60 new laws in 2016 to
help protect unborn babies from abortion, The
Intercept reports.
The
numbers came from a
new report from the Center for Reproductive Rights, an abortion advocacy
group that tracks abortion-related legislation. The numbers are only partially
encouraging for pro-lifers; abortion activists managed to block a number of the
laws in the courts.
According
to the report, state legislators considered more than 100 bills in 2016 that
were directly related to the Center for Medical Progress’s undercover videos
that exposed Planned Parenthood’s baby body parts trafficking.
Of those,
eight states passed laws to defund Planned Parenthood, eight passed laws to
prohibit the sale or donation of aborted babies’ body parts, and four passed
laws prohibiting dismemberment abortions (D&E), a gruesome procedure that
involves tearing an unborn baby limb from limb and then removing it in pieces
from the womb.
Other
states passed laws to prohibit
abortions on unborn babies after 20 weeks when substantial evidence
indicates that they are capable of feeling pain. Ohio was the latest to pass a
Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act several weeks ago. Abortion activists
have been more reluctant to challenge these laws, and 14 currently are in
effect, saving hundreds of late-term unborn babies’ lives from abortion.
The
report listed pro-life laws that passed in 19 states: Alabama, Arizona,
Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi,
Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Wisconsin and
West Virginia. Texas brought the list up to 20; however its regulations came
from state health department administrators, not the legislature.
The
report specifically highlighted Indiana, where Vice President-elect Mike Pence
serves as governor. In the spring, Pence signed a series of pro-life measures
into law, including a bill to ban discriminatory abortions based on an unborn
baby’s genetic abnormality, sex or race.
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While Pence and others framed the legislation as a way to provide dignity to the terminated unborn and as a nondiscrimination law that would prevent the abortion of a fetus strictly because of its gender or potential for disability, advocates for women’s health saw the measures not only as an undue burden on women seeking legally-protected health care, but also as a thinly-veiled attempt at a categorical ban on pre-viable, first trimester abortion. “The law does not value life, it values birth,” Betty Cockrum, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky (PPINK) said at a press conference after the bill’s signing. “What needs to be made abundantly clear is that what this is really about is making abortion go away entirely.”
Planned
Parenthood sued Indiana and convinced a judge to block the law.
However,
the Center for Reproductive Rights mentioned that it is very concerned about
the future, especially because of Pence and incoming President Donald Trump.
Both have promised to support legislation to protect unborn babies, take tax
dollars away from Planned Parenthood and appoint pro-life judges.
“Given
signals from the president-elect and new administration, we know that we must
renew our commitment to defend the rights of women to make decisions that
affect their health, their lives, their families and their futures,” the
abortion advocacy group said in its report.
The group
misrepresented the pro-life laws as attempts to “stigmatize women who need
abortions and the providers who care for them.” Later, it said pro-lifers’ end
goal is to “[ban] abortion care altogether,” a somewhat more accurate
statement.
Pro-lifers
want the right to life for every human being to be protected from conception to
natural death. Laws are just one of the many ways that pro-lifers are working
to protect babies in the womb and their mothers from abortion pain and death.
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