CGS*:*Republican Bill Exploits Concerns about Sexism and Racism to Undermine Abortion Rights
House Republicans held a hearing last week to promote their latest effort to undermine reproductive rights, the cynically named Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA).
The bill, which would prohibit doctors from performing abortions based on the sex or race of the fetus, is sponsored by Representative Trent Franks of Arizona, where a similar bill became law earlier this year. Franks openly acknowledges that PRENDA is part of a broader push to overturn abortion rights. People will say I have a greater agenda and they are right, he told The Daily Caller.
Franks explains his sponsorship of the bill by citing statistics showing that African-American women account for a disproportionately high number of the abortions in America. As Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank points out, Franks established his credentials as a civil rights leader last year when [he] argued that, because of high abortion rates in black communities, African Americans were better off under slavery.
Isn't it funny how word usage can make something that is basically good sound like something monsterous?
I mean "undermining", "prohibit doctors from performing abortions based on the sex or race of the fetus"?
Oh, wait, before I go any further TM, do you think it is a good thing for doctors to perform abortions because of the gender of the fetus? You know in China they abort female fetuses all the time because of the one child per couple rule. Maybe you think we should begin doing this... for the good of the people of course.
Immie
They do that because of the government laws. Anytime the government tries to regulate things like this they just fuck it up.
That's why "big gubmint" needs to simply stay out of making laws regarding abortion and family planning.
The only ones that should be involved in making that decision is the woman and her doctor. Everyone else, including "big gubmint", needs to butt out and mind their own fucking business.