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03-03-2006, 10:20 PM
Georgia's abortion debate by Jeff Emanuel - Mar 3, 2006 (http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/JeffEmanuel/2006/03/03/188489.html)
The foundation of a free society is composed of two things: freedom of information and freedom of choice. However, one cannot be effectively exercised without the other, as without a full complement of information, educated, informed, and knowledgeable decisions cannot be made.
All of free life is made up of choices. The choice whether or not to have an abortion can be one of the most difficult of these that a woman may ever face—and as such, it is a decision which should be made with the greatest amount of information possible. Two bills currently in the Georgia state Senate deal directly with abortion, information, and choice.
Senate Bill (SB) 429, the "Ultrasound Act," which so "horrifies" pro-abortion activists, provides the opportunity—no more and no less—to make a more informed decision. The bill requires that, "As a part of the informed consent to the abortion procedure, a pregnant female desiring an abortion shall be offered an opportunity to view the ultrasound or sonogram image of her unborn child." Maybe I am missing something, but where is the coercion there? Under this law, the woman has no obligation to do anything differently than she does now—she just has the opportunity to obtain more information for use in making her choice.
The complaint that SB 429 will make "this decision harder for the thousands of women who already struggle" with it is an amazing self-indictment of the pro-abort left. When contemplating the taking of human life (and we can all agree that a fetus will become a person in time, even if we do not agree on exactly when that takes place), how can there possibly be a rational argument against making that decision as difficult as possible?
The foundation of a free society is composed of two things: freedom of information and freedom of choice. However, one cannot be effectively exercised without the other, as without a full complement of information, educated, informed, and knowledgeable decisions cannot be made.
All of free life is made up of choices. The choice whether or not to have an abortion can be one of the most difficult of these that a woman may ever face—and as such, it is a decision which should be made with the greatest amount of information possible. Two bills currently in the Georgia state Senate deal directly with abortion, information, and choice.
Senate Bill (SB) 429, the "Ultrasound Act," which so "horrifies" pro-abortion activists, provides the opportunity—no more and no less—to make a more informed decision. The bill requires that, "As a part of the informed consent to the abortion procedure, a pregnant female desiring an abortion shall be offered an opportunity to view the ultrasound or sonogram image of her unborn child." Maybe I am missing something, but where is the coercion there? Under this law, the woman has no obligation to do anything differently than she does now—she just has the opportunity to obtain more information for use in making her choice.
The complaint that SB 429 will make "this decision harder for the thousands of women who already struggle" with it is an amazing self-indictment of the pro-abort left. When contemplating the taking of human life (and we can all agree that a fetus will become a person in time, even if we do not agree on exactly when that takes place), how can there possibly be a rational argument against making that decision as difficult as possible?