N.D. lawmakers define start of life, outlaw abortion

[cali]

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Source: USA Today

North Dakota lawmakers Friday completed action to outlaw almost all abortions, voting to define life as beginning at conception.

The Republican-dominated House also approved a so-called personhood amendment that asks voters to change the state's constitution to recognize and protect "the inalienable right to life of every human being at any stage of development." Besides conferring human rights on fertilized eggs and outlawing abortion, the proposition, which will be on the November 2014 ballot, could potentially affect end-of-life decisions for adults.

A third piece of legislation passed Friday by the House requires abortion clinic physicians to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles. The legislation is aimed at shutting down the state's only abortion clinic, in Fargo.

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A week ago, lawmakers sent Gov. Jack Dalrymple, a Republican, one bill that outlaws abortion as early as six weeks and another that forbids women from aborting a fetus that has a serious genetic defect.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/22/north-dakota-conception-abortion/2010747/

[Ilsa]

1. This is insanity.

And not allowing abortion for fetuses with serious genetic defects? I guess they want to pay for the Medicaid for those babies and children out of their own pockets? And their special education for 22 years? These people are out of touch with reality.

[idwiyo]

6. I wonder how many of them each one of those arseholes is willing to adopt, in case if mother dies

during the childbirth. I am betting the number is zero, nada, nil.

[idwiyo]

2. Nutcases, enough said.

[cali]

3. Only it's not enough

We have to fight these republican legislators in state after state and we have to have to, if we can, contribute to those organizations that help women who can't afford an abortion and who want to obtain one.

http://www.fundabortionnow.org/

[idwiyo]

5. Oh' I do get it, trust me. I also give donations to Mary Stopes International and PP.

Will check your link too and if they accept donations from abroad they will go on my yearly donations list.

[duhneece]

4. These are folks with serious trust-in-women issues

They obviously don't trust women to make reproductive decisions for their own bodies...sad for everyone. I hope women stand up and demand their rights.

[In_The_Wind]

7. Big mistake!

[McCamy Taylor]

8. I think it is a competition for right wing campaign dollars.

Next, we will see a bill that retroactively criminalizes abortion back to the beginning of time.

[duhneece]

9. And this is NOT what the Bible says

After God formed man in Genesis 2 (this should be a '7'...don't know why the post shows a smiley face?), He “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and it was then that the man became a living being”. Although the man was fully formed by God in all respects, he was not a living being until after taking his first breath.

In Job 33:4, it states: “The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.”

Again, to quote Ezekiel 37:5&6, “Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the Lord.”

In Exodus 21:22 it states that if a man causes a woman to have a miscarriage, he shall be fined; however, if the woman dies then he will be put to death. It should be apparent from this that the aborted fetus is not considered a living human being since the resulting punishment for the abortion is nothing more than a fine; it is not classified by the bible as a capital offense.

According to the bible, destroying a living fetus does not equate to killing a living human being even though the fetus has the potential of becoming a human being. One can not kill something that has not been born and taken a breath. This means that a stillborn would not be considered a human being either. Of course, every living sperm has the potential of becoming a human being although not one in a million will make it; the rest are aborted. .

[OKNancy]

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