Wow. What about the assault on life?? Roe V. Wade clearly stipulated guidelines using trimesters; yet over time those boundaries have been grossly extended and we now have fetus' being aborted well into the third trimester with proposals of terminating life right after birth! Imagine a baby just being born into this world and then immediately killed and discarded like a piece of garbage. How do you feel that this is ok?
Some statistics that you just might want to ponder for awhile and truly ask yourself what about the rights of the baby:
Survival Rates (approximately based on multiple factors)
Babies born 23 weeks have a 17 percent chance of survival.
Babies born at 24 weeks have a 39 percent chance of survival.
Babies born at 25 weeks have a 50 percent chance of survival.
Babies born at 26 weeks have an 80 percent chance of survival.
Babies born at 27 weeks have a 90 percent chance of survival.
Babies born between 28-31 weeks gestation have at 90-95 percent chance of survival.
Babies born between 32-33 weeks have a 95 percent chance of survival.
Most babies born 34 weeks or greater have the same likelihood of survival as a full term infant.
??? So a political party should go along with terminating life of a child right after birth, or well into the baby's third trimester to win votes?? To me that is just plain sick.
As modern medicine and technology progresses, a life is becoming more and more viable earlier and earlier into the pregnancy.
Sorry, but I truly find your liberal stance on this quite offensive.
@libertybele , the Alabama bill is the bridge too far that, I fear, will cost the GOP (not just Trump, but Republicans in general) the 2020 elections.
And we had 'em on the ropes, you know, because the Dem bills to legalize third-trimester infanticide are extreme and obnoxious. But Alabama (and the several other states that have passed "heartbeat" bills) have countered with extreme legislation of their own, which are blatantly unconstitutional under current law and represent the kind of assault on womens' rights that will galvanize independents in opposition.
And what's worse is that if sensible Republicans speak out against these bills, they will be attacked by the fetus-obsessed wing of the base. They will be caught in the middle and the result will be a rout in Congress. The GOP is truly sowing the seeds of its own destruction.
Now the facts in your post suggest a sensible position for pro-life Republicans to take - restrict abortion after the 23rd week when the fetus has a fighting chance to survive on its own. That gives a woman a full five months to decide whether to exercise her Constitutional right. If she can't make her decision by then, then the state can step in and protect the fetus's choate potential for life. Such restrictions aren't all that dissimilar to abortion restrictions in Europe.
But the Alabama bill bans virtually all abortions, at all stages of pregnancy, without even an exception for rape and incest. The heartbeat bills ban the procedure after six weeks, before many women will even know for sure they're pregnant. These bills will rightfully be seen as deliberate assaults on women, and will destroy the goodwill the GOP has built up in the last several months in opposing the pro-aborts' own extremism in legalizing third-trimester infanticide.
Take it from Ralph Reed if you can't stand my "liberal stance" on this matter - the GOP has the high road when it acts to prevent late-pregnancy abortions, not when it demands a raped woman endure her pregnancy with absolutely no choice in the matter.
Hopefully the statements by Reed and Robertson will knock some sense into the GOP. I can see Donald Trump seizing this as a Sistah Souljah moment - a chance to re-align the GOP with the majority sentiment that abortion be safe, legal and rare. Come out in support of sensible, constitutional restrictions, and denounce these cynical attempts to force the Supreme Court to overturn its forty-year support for the liberty of women.