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Thursday August 15, 2002
CALIFORNIA SENATOR TRIES TO 'BAN' POSSIBLE FUTURE LAWS AGAINST ABORTION
Merely a pro-abortion symbol inspired by a totalitarian impulse
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LOS ANGELES, August 15, 2002 (LSN.ca) - A California state senator, Sheila Kuehl (Dem.), is sponsoring a bill to "ban" the state's legislators from ever trying to outlaw abortion. "We have an anti-choice president, an anti-choice Congress, and a Supreme Court that's one vote away from overturning Roe v. Wade," the Los Angeles Democrat claims, citing the possible retirement in the near future of pro-choice and/or swing-vote justices from the Supreme Court: "Now is the time to protect our right to choose."
Sen. Kuehl's Act is an attempt to bind California from hypothetically passing a law to "deny or interfere with a woman's fundamental right to bear a child or to choose or obtain an abortion," and includes "non-surgical [chemically-induced] abortions" prescribed by non-medical personnel. The state senate passed the law earlier this month with vocal support from Democratic Governor Gray Davis.
But traditionally, a legislature cannot bind the freedom of action of a future legislature (i.e. denying the next generation in a democratic society from expressing its will) -- thus implying that Miss Kuehl's bill is merely a pro-abortion symbol inspired by a totalitarian impulse.
To read Washington Times coverage see:
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020815-33253900.htm
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