“After I gave my life to Jesus Christ as my lord and savior I opened up the book and I read ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you. And see I set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life,’” Mike Pence intoned from the debate stage Wednesday. “I knew from that moment on the cause of life had to be my cause.”
In a sign of how upended the anti-abortion movement has been by Dobbs and the electoral politics around it, major anti-abortion organization Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America applauded Pence for embracing this benchmark.
I think a few things are being “not said.” Sure, it seems anti-choice orgs are rallying around the 15 week national ban. One thing not being said, is that the national “standard” would not be expected to supersede tighter restrictions at the state level.
After all, it’s supposed to be up to the states–at least until such time [never] the national standard would be no abortions ever, in which case the anti-choice forces would gladly defer to the national ban. Especially if it would outlaw abortion in pro-choice states.
A 15-week abortion ban is the sort of proposal guaranteed to make nobody happy and is absolutely DOA. The fact that Dense apparently doesn’t know that just shows how stupid he truly is. The xtian nationalist pro-forced birth movement will settle for nothing less than total abortion bans, fetal personhood, murder prosecutions for women who get abortions. On the other side, women (and men too) who value bodily autonomy and the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution will never ever settle for a national abortion ban. Dense is a idiot.
I am so very tired of Christians making claims we are a Christian nation.
Our Constitution was written by Madison and Monroe mainly ,who were Deists.
Jefferson and Washington were also Deists from what I have read.
Since I am a Deist I should be in charge of what our Constitution says not Christians.
Does the most Holy Bible say anything about the thin end of the wedge? Of course 15 weeks is a good place for those who lie for the Lord and KNOW HIM AND HIS HOLINESS…to start. But they don’t have to finish there, not as long as they accumulate power in legislatures and judges, no ma’am! But we need to get back those sheep in those suburbs flirting with those evil liberals, so 15 little weeks is what we say now on our used car lot of “family values”, yes ma’am. Sounds ever so wise and calming, 15 weeks.
What’s that? Contraception? Well, we’ll have to table that for now, that’s not at all what we have in mind, ma’am, I assure you. Your daughter is quite a character, isn’t she, going off to that overpriced school with those wacky ideas. Listen to your husband now, and fill out that absentee ballot with him. No ma’am, they’re not a liberal plot, even Trump says so now. No ma’am, he’s still dedicated to stopping Soros, as I am.
“After I gave my life to Jesus Christ as my lord and savior I opened up the book and I read ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you. And see I set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life.’”
That’s a lovely rendition, but it’s not in my book.
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.
In ancient traditions, pre-dating the scrolls, and in cultures existing to this day, life begins at first breath, and failing to care for a pregnant woman is murder.
So many self righteous men, Christian or otherwise, talking about women’s bodies and women’s right to control them. They know their genitals won’t be under discussion, therefore I’d like to kick each and everyone of them in the balls, beginning with trumpet because of the abortions he provided for girlfriends over the years and is now piously opposed to them and wants to imprison women who have them. Hypocritical shits.