ACLU imposes will over Arizona

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
8/2/2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

Lat minute victory puts abortion restriction on hold.

The ACLU has managed to snatch victory and life from babes in the womb, just hours after a judge upheld the legality of an abortion restriction law in Arizona. The ACLU claims the law represented an illegal ban.

If they get their way, yes.

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PHOENIX, AZ (Catholic Online) - Just yesterday morning, a judge upheld a law that would have prevented abortions of children after just 20 weeks of pregnancy with some exceptions. The verdict was hailed as a great victory for life. But the anti-life lobby was relentless and supported by the ACLU, they filed an immediate appeal.

The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals took the case and blocked the law from taking effect while arguments are prepared.

Now an unprecedented time of prayer and support must begin if Arizona is to protect their unborn children to the extent permitted by current law.

The ACLU originally contended that the law represented an illegal ban on abortion, but advocates of the law deftly dispatched this argument by explaining that the law was a reasonable restriction, not a ban. Federal Judge, James A. Teilborg, agreed and upheld the law as reasonable and constitutional.

Now the ACLU is attacking the law on the grounds that the term of pregnancy is counted from the time of the last menstrual period, and therefore the law could restrict abortions in pregnancies that are only 18 weeks along.

This method of determining the time of pregnancy is standard medical practice, but it matters because the case of Planned Parenthood vs. Casey established that no law can be passed which restricts abortion until a child is viable outside of the womb. A child becomes viable in the period between 20-22 weeks, which means the law would infringe on the limits set by the Casey decision.

The ACLU continues to command rhetoric over the law, referring to it as an "extreme abortion ban." Nothing could be further from the truth, which reveals the level of doublespeak and misinformation the organization will go to keep abortion mills in business.

Fortunately, the ACLU hasn't won yet. The case will be picked up in October and a ruling will be made. In the meantime, a number of other pro-life states have already implemented similar laws, which have survived challenge, or are preparing to enact them.

Such laws may not be a cure for what ails the nation, but they do help. For now, abortion remains legal, but laws that protect both mother and child are worthwhile, even if they can only come in baby steps.

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Keywords: ACLU, Arizona, appeal, 20 weeks, Planned Parenthood vs Casey

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The Rose
9 months ago
Step by step is what progress is about, yet, there trully are some things I don't understand in the legal arena. If a state votes for making same sex marriage illegal and constitutes marriage is between a man and a woman, the people speak, right? Well, then if the people of a state speak, how can a judge turn down the decision of the people of the electorials of that state and say the peoples vote for a particular issue is unconstitutional? Especially if this decision is unfair since the judge preceding is gay...This is just not right. Why vote then? Same goes with this article in regard to limitations of abortion, decided by a judge. How can an entity, such as ACLU, have such power to make a block in the acceptance of legal agreements for the justification for the people through a judge. I just don't get it, because this is suppose to be a country where people are encouraged to vote, people are encouraged to trust the legal system. people are encouraged to believe there is a reason for the laws of the land...yet, in truth the laws of the land are made for the elitists who control the masses under a militant control tactics. What good is voting if the courts turn down what "the people" voted for? What good is the decision of "a judge" if some militant group, such as the ACLU, doesn't like something decided by "the legal system"? Something is not right in our judicial system? Something is rotten in the White House and it smells of the sulfur from the depths of the inner core of the earth....And this country of the United States of America is called a land of the free when those who inhabit the land speak out through the systems set up to let the people speak their desires, yet, the elitists block what the people want thru the election process!!!.....I trully believe for a change in the government of the United States of America, there needs to be a shakedown across the board of all inhabitants of the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court of those who have been there more than four years. These inhabitants of the judicial , executive , and the governmental systems have become stagnic, petrafyied, and purtrified in and out of themselves that where they sit in congress, where they sit in the White House, where they sit in the Supreme Court thorns and weeds are growing around them and nothing of good, in the eyes of God, is being produced. What good is doing what the people believe in their hearts, to follow their civic duty, when someone in the elitists arena knocks them down! That is as bad as when President Obamas representative tore the people of North Carolina apart for doing their civic duty and voted for their beliefs against same sex marriage for their state because Mr. Obama didn't like the state of North Carolina's desire via the peoples choice in voting. I trully believe issues of abortion and same sex marriage should be state by state voting and not a national vote. Why then have the representatives of each state when what they represent for the people is cast aside because they don't bend over to the elitists in the White House and his controlling death panels....sit and watch the attemts to set a country onto the path of demise unless something changes in the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court..The White House is not white as a representation of purity. And my final words are...I dare the Catholic Online to print this comment...thank you....

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