Lawmaker's goal: Overturn Roe v. Wade (Indiana)

[toey]

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060106/NEWS02/601060475

Abortion would be illegal for most women in Indiana, including victims of rape and incest, under a bill filed this week in the Indiana House.

Indiana's legislators have chipped away at abortion for decades, imposing waiting periods and other restrictions, but the measure proposed by Rep. Troy A. Woodruff, R-Vincennes, is the first direct attempt in years to outlaw most abortions.

The only exception allowed under House Bill 1096 would be for women whose health or life would be permanently impaired if a pregnancy continued. The bill would define life as beginning at conception and make it a felony to perform all other abortions. Anyone convicted would face up to eight years in prison.

Woodruff said he expected the bill to easily pass the House. But Senate President Pro Tempore Robert Garton, R-Columbus, and Gov. Mitch Daniels questioned the prospects of the proposal.

more at the link...

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1. I'm actually more comfortable with people who don't make rape/incest

an exception -- if they believe abortion is murder, then why is that murder justifiable if the conception is from a rape? The baby didn't get to choose how it was made. At least these "no exception except life of the mother" people are consistent. (I'm pretty sure most "no legal abortion unless it's rape or incest" people are also "no legal abortion unless I need one personally" people.)

(Disclaimer: I am pro-choice, think that the whole 'life begins at conception' thing is more about controlling women than saving lives, and this bill wouldn't pass Constitutional muster anyway.)

[Canuckistanian]

2. Just another law for the SC to strike down

This has already been challenged several times. And each time the SC has ruled against banning abortion.

It would be pretty damn difficult to go against all of that.