U.S. Congress - H.R.1964 Freedom of Choice Act
H.R.1964 - Freedom of Choice Act
To protect, consistent with Roe v. Wade, a woman's freedom to choose to bear a child or terminate a pregnancy, and for other purposes. view all titles (2)
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- Short: Freedom of Choice Act as introduced.
- Official: To protect, consistent with Roe v. Wade, a woman's freedom to choose to bear a child or terminate a pregnancy, and for other purposes. as introduced.
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Abortion is not just the private choice of the mother. There are others that are involved: the baby, the father, the grandparents, the brothers and/or sisters, aunts, uncles, friends. There is a choice and that choice is whether to end a life or not.
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Gift from God -
As a Catholic I believe that every human life is sacred and that it is truly a gift from God. Although God may have bestowed on women the right to give birth, that right did not come along with certain privileges nor do I believe it was God’s intention that it was our property (because I am sure we are all smart enough to know that this baby is really not a part of our body as some would want us to believe).
And moving forward from the term “gift from God”, I would ask everyone to seriously consider this —
when someone thinks enough of you to give you a gift, how do you react?
Most often you say thank you and are at least appreciative that someone thought so much of you to take the time to go out and get, or make, you a gift. And while, I know, the gifts may not always be to our liking, I know of no one who ever returns the gift to the giver.
And why do you think that it is? Because it would hurt the giver’s feelings. Well, when we say no thanks to the gift of life, we are hurting God’s (for those who believe in a supreme being) feelings. When an abortion is performed (for those who believe in life after death), we have returned to God the gift he gave us.
Now I know some of you (especially in this day and age) are given the gift with a receipt which allows you to exchange the gift. I compare this in a pregnancy to having the baby and giving it up for adoption. That’s great, because we all know that sometimes the gift we are given we may think is not for us – for whatever reason.
And now I would like to call your attention to the new terms of the day with respect to what I think is actually an inconvenient pregnancy
-“unplanned”, “unintended” or “unwanted”. You can’t use these words and be serious about it. Even those who are on the pill or are using some other form of contraception know that these forms are not 100% foolproof. And that the end result of having sex can be a life. And in my faith the purpose of sex is one thing – to procreate.Those words – unplanned, unintended or unwanted (and whatever new ones will be made up to justify abortion) – are just a way to minimize their condition – pregnant, with child. But while minimizing their condition, they are minimizing the life within.
I have to wonder how many times those who have an abortion wonder – would that child have been someone today (just think if abortions were readily available, is it possible that your mother or mine would have made that “choice” not to have us or how about Senator Obama’s mother, just 18 unsure of what the struggles ahead might be?)?
Often times those who’s life is the darkest are the ones who are willing to take on that next challenge. So I don’t buy that in the name of the poor or the young we must make abortions readily available, because our challenges are what makes us the individuals we become. We are the nation we are because of our struggles, but I am ashamed to think of the nation we will become because of how we try to rid ourselves of our challenges and most often, this challenge.
How can we help others through the struggles when we don’t believe we have to face our own challenges? When we lose our personal responsbility, we lose the nation’s responsibility.
So let’s be real here – our government’s purpose is not to assure that we have an out if we take any action knowing it’s possible outcome. I plead to the women (and men) of the world who the politicians say they speak for – read the Freedom of Choice Act – the signing of which will be the FIRST thing President Obama will do if he gets into office as stated at a Planned Parenthood presentation (when what we are all concerned about is health care, jobs and the economy in general) – and let the politicians, but more importantly Senator Obama, know you don’t agree with it.
Not just as a Catholic, but as a Christian, I am reminded of our purpose through words of the song “Take Up Your Cross” – “Take up your cross let not its weight fill your weak spirit with alarm; His strength shall bear your spirit up, and brace your heart and nerve your arm. Take up your cross then, in his strength, and calmly every danger brave; It guides you to a better home and leads to vict’ry o’er the grave.”
A woman chooses the moment she has sex…when does the baby get the right to choose?
In modern society there is preventative measures women can take to not become pregnant. We don’t have the infrastructure or resources to humanely support every baby in the world that would be conceived to every women in the world. This would also lead to more child exploitation and to the further destruction and angst that humanity faces by living in a biblical reality and not facing facts. I personally don’t believe in abortion, but beleive its a necessary “evil”
to prevent more child exploitation.
You do not know the God of the Bible..quit kidding yourself.
How about the rights of the child you just killed! “The power of creating life was granted to women by God” Are you serious! God and god alone creates life. We are his servants and he uses us to spread his word, and to he also uses us as a vehicle to create life. But, whatever helps you sleep at night.
All these people think they are GOD. They think it is okay for a woman in America to kill an American child before they are born. Vote every one of these suckers out of office
in Jesus name. Amen
May GOD bless all of us, U. S.
John Wieder
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So should we make murder legal? Just because murder is legal doesn’t mean everyone would go around killing people. Would that make it right? I think NOT! Abortion is murder!
If it’s not a baby, she’s not pregnant. Where in the constitution does it say that anyone has a right to kill their baby?
At the very least, this is an issue best left to the states. The states have rights too. Forcing abortion on states that don’t want it is dictatorial.
I agree with the aspect that the states must have a greater say in this issue. There have been many infringements on the tenth amendment in the past, and I would urge not only this issue, but many of the hottest issues to be left to state regulation instead of federal regulation.
It’s Obama, did you really expect anything other than dictatorial? He forces CEO’s to quit, tells companies how to spend their money etc etc.
Are you serious??
Spook: Forcing abortion on states that don’t want it is dictatorial.
So is forcing gestation and childbirth on women who do not wish to continue a pregancy or become mothers not dictatorial?
I do believe that the women had a choice in having sex and were likely educated enough to know that sex may result in a baby. If not, better education is certainly called for, but the murder of an innocent child is not.
No one forces a women to get pregnant. No one forces them to be a mother either. There are alot of women that can’t have children that would love to take in that baby and raise them as their own.
I am a father of two children that I love deeply but I would have supported my wife if she choose to have an abortion with ether one of them.
How do you think your children would feel about that?
I don’t understand how you can say that with your two children standing right there in front of you.
Abortion is the MURDER of an innocent, unborn baby. What part of MURDER do you liberal animals not understand?
There is a book that might help when faced with these type of decisions, i would suggest that any one concerned with this topic please reference it.It,s called the Holy Bible
A woman can CHOOSE to use birth control before sex, plan when she ovulate, and even not have sex. Everyone knows that sex makes babies, so they shouldn’t act like it was “unplanned.”
The FOCA takes away our choice. Our choice to not let OUR MONEY go to funding abortions and choosing not to preform abortions in you hospital/practice. But also, and most importantly, it takes away a baby’s right to choose their life. Babies don’t ask to be created, so why punish them for the mother and father’s mistake. Babies don’t ask to be murdered. Besides, have any of you even suffered from abortion? Have you ever had your arms and legs sucked off of you? No, you have not. You are alive. What if your mom had had an abortion? Think about all the amazing people that have come and gone. What if the Virgin Mary had an abortion? The world would change. IT IS MURDER.
I cant comprehend how people who support this can talk about racial injustice or femminist rights, or even say Hitler was evil for murdering Jews, when they sit here and say it is okay to murder a baby? An innocent baby? I would condem all of us for being the Nazis of the 21st century.
Finally, I understand some are worried about the illegally preformed abortions. Banning abortion would not prevent any from happening, it would make it harder, saving many lives, and giving many wonderful gifts to parents across America. It would deter, not prevent. Think about all that will be saved.
“To protect her life or her health” is entirely too general; “prohibits … interfering with a woman’s right to exercise such choices” is also too general; and together with “authorizes an individual aggrieved by a violation of this Act to obtain appropriate relief … in a civil action” would allow an abortion clinic counselor to be sued because s/he suggested an alternative to abortion.
Abortion should be illegal period, and this bill makes it dangerous for anyone to even suggest the protection of an unborn child.
after glancing over the text of FOCA I see the statistics that are used are inflated and inaccurate. The supporters of this Act claim they want safer abortions yet they want to run the abortion clinics free from the safety and health regulations that are required in hospitals. They behave like they are above the law. There is nothing safe about unregulated surgery.
I guess we want to go back to the days when women used coat hangers to abort and were either maimed or killed. Sometimes women are raped, even raped by their fathers. Sometimes a woman may already have 6 children that she can’t support and can’t afford another. If life is so sacred to anti-choice proponents, why aren’t you protesting all of the innocent men, women and children killed in the Iraqi and Afganistan Wars and almost 5000 solders killed? What about people killed by the states who might be innocent? People need to read the act before believing all the lies about it.
You all talk about how women “made the choice” to have sexual intercourse, right? But have you ever thought about the person who was raped? Did she really have a choice in creating that child? No she didn’t. And I realize that there are other options for the woman to take if this were to happen. But that can be a constant reminder to her of how she was violated ad how she had no option in the matter of creating a child. Also, if you think about it, there are plenty of laws that are set that people don’t abide by and get around it. Do you think banning abortion is really going to stop a woman from having an abortion? People will get around it.
I know that I could never abort a child that was created within me, but who am I to say that someone else can’t for their personal reasons and beliefs.
Rape/incest and other “hard” cases account for less than 1% of all abortions performed in the United States. Why not work toward outlawing abortion except in these “hard” cases? All FOCA does is generalize legalized abortion to the “benefit of the woman’s health,” such a broad statement that anything could be used to justify an abortion.
A second thought: Since when was it the governments responsibility to remove personal accountability from its citizens? For the 99% of abortions performed on woman who participated in legal and consensual intercourse, where is the personal accountability? There is always a risk of pregnancy when participating in intercourse. There is zero risk from abstaining. When you choose to have intercourse you also choose to accept responsibility for the direct results of this risk. It is NOT the governments responsibility to babysit its citizens and provide them with accountability bailouts.