Op-ed:

We’re NOT like China...oh wait, we now are 

By: Diane Sori

H.R. 3541: Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) of 2012, commonly referred to as the Anti-Gender Selective Abortion Bill, would have made it a federal crime to perform an abortion based solely on the sex of the fetus.  It also would have barred using force or the threat of force to coerce such an abortion; would have blocked federal grants to organizations where such procedures were performed or from them receiving payment for such abortions; and would have disallowed the transporting of a woman across state lines or into the country for such an abortion.  

 

This past Thursday a roll call vote was taken in the House and fell 30 votes short of passing.  The final vote was 246 to 168.  This bill required a two-thirds majority to pass.  7 Republicans (including presidential ‘no longer hopeful’ Ron Paul) voted against it as did 161 Democrats (including the infamous Debbie Wasserman Schultz), while 20 ‘blue-dog’ Democrats voted for it citing religious grounds as their reason for doing so.

All 168 of these people regardless of party who voted against the bill need to be voted OUT of office at their re-election time.

Barack Hussein Obama and his minions of course chimed in with their opposition to the bill saying it could end up subjecting doctors to strict punishment (performing or aiding such an abortion would be a crime punishable by up to five years in prison), and that the law would be difficult to follow and enforce.

What I want to know is what exactly is so difficult to follow and enforce...if a woman comes in saying she wants an abortion because she doesn't want a boy or doesn't want a girl, the doctor just says NO to preforming the abortion...what is so difficult about that...NOTHING!

Yet 168 Congresspersons felt this bill was wrong.  Some of course were just vehemently pro-abortion no matter the reason but some in all good conscience just did NOT believe this bill would have made any difference even if it passed.  Those persons used the argument that if gender selective abortions were indeed made illegal, what would stop a woman from going in and just simply saying she didn’t want the baby she was carrying and demanding her legal right to an abortion without having to give any reason why. 

Sadly, they do make a strong point with that one because Roe vs Wade is still on the books as originally written and passed.  Roe v. Wade made abortion legal by stating that a woman could choose to have an abortion in the earlier months of pregnancy without legal restriction, and with restrictions in later months, based on the right to privacy.

Some other dissenters claimed that if Congress really wanted to pass a pro-life legislation, why didn’t they go all the way and ban all abortions? 

In my opinion and it’s my opinion only, the answer to that is really quite simple...you cannot ban ALL abortions because there are four instances where abortion should be an option...obviously if the mother's life is in danger, rape, incest, and where a baby is so deformed that it has NO chance of life outside the womb.

Yes, legislation could be written that takes those things into consideration allowing abortions in those few instances, but that would NOT prevent women who simply did NOT want the baby they were carrying for whatever reason from seeking backroom abortions.  And the bottom line to that would be that women would needlessly be dying because they could not get the hospital/clinic ‘safe’ abortions they previously could get.

So now with the failure of this bill, as limited in scope as it was, we hit a brick wall where abortion has now become a free for all with NO limits set and where wanton baby killing will become common practice.  With gender selective abortions being allowed, we have just crossed the line and become like China where female fetuses are routinely aborted, because in their society males are deemed more desirable and worthy of life than females are.

So much for the Republican ‘War on Women,’ we now have a full-blown, no holds barred, war on the unborn.