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The “Freedom of Choice Act” – Change we DON’T need!

  • The Freedom of Choice Act is the broadest most extensive piece of pro-abortion legislation ever written, first proposed by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and strongly supported by Presidential Candidate Barack Obama. Obama has said he will make this a priority if he’s elected president. (Speech to Planned Parenthood).
  • The FOCA nullifies more than 500 laws currently in place to restrict and limit abortions. (Section 6)
  • The FOCA legalizes partial birth abortion, establishing a woman’s so called “fundamental right to choose” as an absolute right in any circumstance before full delivery of the child. (Section 4.a, 4.b.1.C)
  • The FOCA requires tax payer funding of abortions on demand through medicaid. (Section 4.)
  • The FOCA invalidates any statute, ordinance, regulation, administrative order, decision, policy, practice, or other action” of any federal, state, or local government or governmental official (or any person acting under government authority) that would “deny or interfere with a woman’s absolute right to aborting her baby. (Section 6)
  • The FOCA invalidates so called “conscience laws” which currently allow medical professionals to choose not to involve themselves in performing abortions. FOCA makes performing abortions mandatory for medical professionals at any pubic hospital, regardless of moral values or religious beliefs, with grouds for legal action against those who refuse. (Section 3.1, 4.b1)
  • The FOCA provides grounds for legal action against any government program or elected officials who acts or speaks in any way that can be interpreted as “discriminating” against abortion. (Section 4.B.2, Section 4.C)

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Official government text of the “Freedom of Choice Act”: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s110-1173

Note: The above claims are derived from the unaltered text of the “Freedom of Choice Act”, and the conclusions and interpretations are based on common judicial and legal understandings of such implications as contained within the bill.

“The Mother’s Health”

The big catchphrase regarding partial birth abortion (and oftent times all abortion) is “the mother’s health”. Obama claims to be in favor of a ban on late term (partial birth) abortions, but supports the common “exception for the mother’s health” clause. Scientific and medical research disprove the theory of a mother’s physical health ever benefiting from a late term abortion vs. simply giving birth. Babies are born premature all the time. The phrase “late term” specifically applies to “viable” babies, which are defined as being fully capable of surviving outside the womb.

Some text from the Freedom of Choice Act, Section 4:

(b) Prohibition of Interference- A government may not–
(1) deny or interfere with a woman’s right to choose–
(A) to bear a child;
(B) to terminate a pregnancy prior to viability; or
(C) to terminate a pregnancy after viability where termination is necessary to protect the life OR HEALTH of the woman;

Again, in order to perform a partial birth abortion, a viable baby is born 90% with only his or her head still inside the birth canal. Ask yourself this. If the baby can survive if born, how does aborting this baby (and actually forcefully preventing the baby from being completely born) save the life of the mother in any way?

“Health of the mother” has been stretched to mean things as selfish as the mother’s mental or emotional health due to potential embarrassment or stress that comes with an unwanted pregnancy and birth.