New York Times laments “disappearing” abortion rights
A September 24 New York Times editorial entitled, “Where abortion rights are disappearing,” lamented the “spate” of new pro-life laws passed by state legislators “concocting new schemes” to make abortion go away.
Yadda yadda. What interested me about the piece was a map and chart included by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute.
The amount of movement forward by the nationwide pro-life community is quite impressive. About the map, quoting NYT (love their descriptors)…
States shown in the darkest shade have enacted five of the most harmful restrictions: mandatory waiting periods; demeaning “counseling” sessions lacking a real medical justification; parental consent or notification laws that pose a particular hardship for teenagers from troubled homes, including incest victims; needlessly onerous clinic “safety” rules governing such things as the width of hallways and the amount of storage space for janitorial supplies; and prohibitions on abortion coverage in insurance policies. States in lighter shades have fewer of these restrictions. Twenty-seven states have enacted three or more of these laws, while only 12 states, shown in white, have none.
It appears our work is most cut out for us in the Northeast and West. I’m surprised by Montana. What don’t I know about that state?
About the volume of laws passed, according to NYT:
Sixty-one such laws were enacted during just the first eight months of this year — nearly triple the number in all of 2010, and more than double the previous record of 28 set in 1997. Although some of this year’s statutes have already been preliminarily enjoined by courts as unconstitutional, others will be left to stand as constraints on women’s reproductive freedom.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Gee, what an “unbiased” article from the New York Slimes.
Aren’t major newspapers like that supposed to represent both sides?
I love that US map lol It should be dark in all the states trying to take women’s rights back to the dark ages… Notice it is just the hillbilly states or what we call the “fly over” states that are dark. I like the coasts much better because they are more socially enlightened as well as being much more ethnically diverse.
The hillbilly states are full of scared white people and I am pretty sure scared white people have killed more people in our history than any other group… Wasn’t Jesus killed by scared white people?
biggz say what? what kind of a stupid rant was that?
Isn’t that how it always goes, Biggz? Those darn hillbillies need to show those socialites the difference between right and wrong. I’d rather be a Clampet than a Drysdale.
If thinking that it should be a legal and acceptable practice to kill one’s young is what passes for “enlightened” on the coasts, I’m glad my father had the sense to move our family from the California Bay Area to Arkansas when I was young (although he married a young Mexican woman…I guess he sucks at every other aspect of being a “scared white person”). Animals behave that way, Biggz. That’s not “enlightened”, that’s barbarism.
Also, my half-Mexican sister married a wonderful young Hmong man she found in that “hillbilly state”. His family moved there from Pennsylvania when he was young because as it turns out, the coasts aren’t that great for raising children. I think they said something about having a skewed value system in the cities? I’m not sure.
Wow, Biggz, racist much? Imagine if you’d said that about African-Americans.
He’s just angry that the “majority rules” mantra is working against him. How many times have I heard that if it’s legal there must be nothing wrong with it? Well, if it’s legal to require “surgical clinics” to have halls big enough for stretchers than there must be nothing wrong with it! It’s progressive! The way the world is heading! “Out of the dark ages” of delayed life-saving healthcare because of narrow halls preventing stretchers from transporting patients to actual hospitals with actual doctors with actual beneficial equipment…. And all that…..
And because some yahoo in a “fly over” state doesn’t what his sexually molested daughter to abort his kid (and expose his abuse) we must prevent all parents from having any say or parental rights in their own childs’ lives especially concerning life-taking surgical procedures in back-alley “clinics” with front doors and flowery “affirming” names? But it’s worth it though right? Cause PP and other abortuaries care sooooooo much for the rights of abused and molested minors and want to prevent their further victimization…… except they fail to report statutory rape and encourage young girls to LIE about their and their boyfriend’s age to avoid any actual interference in the illegal sexual activity….. contradict much???
Your true agenda is showing…..
Denise Maria! “New York Slimes”…..LOL :D
Seriously, journalism is crap these days. It’s liberal gibberish, and pro-abort propaganda everywhere you look. There is no “unbiased” coverage of abortion, not even close. It’s really disgusting.
Why are they so against regulating this so-called “medical procedure”? What is their problem? Are all these people secretly receiving kickbacks from Planned Killinghood or something? How can so many people be so ignorant and deluded? How can so many people look at facts and scream “lies” because those facts inconvenience them?
Thanks, Mary Lee :) The Slimes’ articles usually have more of a subtle bias, but this article is just way over the top. I mean “demeaning “counseling” sessions” and “others will be left to stand as constraints on women’s reproductive freedom“. Geez, it reads as if it was written by a member of NARAL.
LOL!
Biggz, you’re precious.
It’s harder to get a nose job than it is to get an abortion. What’s that about.
The abortion industry is a money machine. They don’t care about women, or women’s health (mental and physical). It’s just ABORT! AT ALL COSTS, ABORT!
“The abortion industry is a money machine.”
If that’s true, then why not just…go into plastic surgery in the first place? Doing nose jobs for a living caries no real risk of having your workplace picketed every day, your house getting firebombed by freaks, or James O’Keefe types pulling bizarr-o publicity-generating pranks in your examining rooms.
Also, you don’t give a flying fig about women’s health, Mary Lee. You said it yourself: women should have to deal with that pesky nine month “inconvenience” for the sake of saving a fetus’ life. That’s not a demonstration of concern for the woman, but for the fetus she is carrying. This is an either/or situation.
It took something as simple as water to melt the Wicked Witch of the West.
It’ll just take the simple, plain truth to melt away the abortion mentality.
“What a world! What a world!” I can’t wait for us to be able to sing: “Ding, dong! The days of killing our offspring is dead!”
Still locked in fantasyland Hans?
If your world were real, well, that wouldn’t be right. To mangle a phrase. But then again, your side is all about mangling, isn’t it?
I don’t think you do a bad job of mangling things yourself Hans.
Facts, womens’ rights, the right of people to live their lives without you interfering, that sort of thing.
Megan, I care deeply about women’s health. Yes, I call pregnancy a ‘temporary inconvenience’ because that is what it is. Abortion is final. Pregnancy is not. Women abort for convenience. Abortion supporters don’t care that they’re screwing up a woman’s body by interrupting a healthy pregnancy and killing a baby. Hey, don’t want to get pregnant? Use birth control. Killing your own baby is not “healthy” in any way, not for the mother, and obviously not for the baby.
Also, abortion hurts women and kills babies. The mental health of women is a great concern to me….killing your own child for the sake of your own life is not a healthy decision; it is sick. Megan, you know full well that your judgment of me is inaccurate. Abortion supporters are ENRAGED about counseling, restrictions, anything that might somehow lessen a woman’s desire for an abortion, and this is a bad thing? Why? Because oops, there goes their money, and their business. Pro-aborts are psychotically obsessed with CPCs, because they actually help women. “Abort at all costs” is obviously true. Even your own arguments support that, Megan.
Reality: “Still locked in fantasyland Hans?”
About as much as Wilberforce.
I wonder what the people were like who had the same opinion of him?
Well, as someone from one of those Hillbilly fly over white homelands (Tennessee), I want to speak up for my peeps! I have never been so proud! Biggz, next time you’re flying over my sweet Southern homeland, just. keep. flying. In fact, France is waiting.
In fact, France is waiting.
It seems oh-so-progressive and secular France could use some help, btw. Having unprotected sex with new partners is up there, by 111 percent. Darn that Christofascist abstinence education!!! *shakes fist in sarcasm*
Reality,
I’d much rather mangle cliched phrases than very young humans, thank you very much.
“Facts”? Like there’s a difference between life and non-life?
“Women’s rights”? Well, ya got me there. I’m for human rights. First of all, the right of innocents to go on living.
“The right of people to live their lives without you interfering”???
I think that’s the point where we pro-lifers bug out our eyes and shoot out our tongues like a cartoon character!
You people really do look at the world through kaleidoscope eyes, don’t you?
Many pro-aborts say fetus this and fetus that all the times but actually “Fetus.” is Latin for “little child.” not “sub-human being.”
Abby Johnon’s 4 year old daughter stated it best, “Please keep babies from being broken and keep them safe in their mommy’s tummies.”
If the NYT is representative of how “coastal” Americans think, then I feel sorry for them. A world without children – how sad. Even your children are small adults – and your adults are stuck in arrested adolescence.
Glad to learn that Michigan is one of the states with pro-life legislation – I was concerned that Governor Snyder would stifle it.
“If that’s true, then why not just…go into plastic surgery in the first place?”
Hmmm….maybe because plastic surgery residencies are extremely competitive, and you have to be at the top of your class and have excellent test scores to get in? Plastic surgeons tend to be the best and brightest.
Abortionists….not so much.
“Reality”,
Facts, womens’ rights, the right of people to live their lives without you interfering, that sort of thing.
OK, let me address a few things here.
1) Facts: Actually, I would say that pro-aborts are quite adept at mangling the facts, or conveniently ignoring them.
2) Women’s rights: I’m not really sure what the killing of innocent children has to do with women’s rights.
3) the right of people to live their lives without you interfering: Oh, you mean the right of an unborn child to live in his/her mother’s womb, without somebody tearing him/her out of it. Right?
“Abortion supporters are ENRAGED about counseling, restrictions, anything that might somehow lessen a woman’s desire for an abortion, and this is a bad thing?”
Not quite. I absolutely support more intensive, UNBIASED counseling at family planning clinics. Forcing a health care provider to read a script prepared by anti-abortion ideologues hardly qualifies as “counseling.” If this particular pro-life intervention isn’t aimed at making women feel really, really bad about themselves, then why does it focus on prying women’s eyes open to look at sonograms while they’re lying naked on the examining room table, instead of trying to improve intake counseling? And please, “crisis” pregnancy centers aren’t a problem if they don’t use deceptive tactics to get women not to have abortions. If they’re just handing out baby booties and not a) disguising their “clinics” to look like legitimate medical practices, b) lying about a woman’s gestational age so that she runs out of time to get an abortion, c) forces religion on an unwilling recipient, then I see no problem with CPCs.
“Abortion is final. Pregnancy is not.”
What? Pregnancy isn’t like having your wisdom teeth out. It’s probably the most significant thing somebody can do with their body. Oh yeah, pregnancy’s so temporary. Hormonal changes are only temporary, episiotomies are only temporary. Bringing a child into the world is only temporary! Taking care of a child for eighteen+ years is only temporary, placing your baby in the arms of a stranger is ONLY TEMPORARY!
You demean the whole experience of pregnancy and childbirth by trying to rob women of their final say on the matter. You might think abortion is tragic, but DO NOT PRETEND that being pro-life is really in the “best interest” of women and their physical, mental and emotional well-being. Treating another woman like she’s a mere incubator is NOT compassionate. You love fetuses more than women–that’s the long and short of it.
Montana has a privacy clause in it state constitution that prevents many pro-life laws.
We’re picking up steam! Full house at Mass this morning due to an event after Mass. Father gave a wonderful prolife talk!
Just finished watching 180 with my family. The kids are posting it on Facebook to share with more young people! The young people are listening and promoting life!