What I see as the problem is this. We failed to separate the abortion discussion from the immigration portion. Laws should not cover multiple subjects in one bill when possible and this still fails that simple premise. I want to have an intelligent discussion over both issues but in order to do that, we need to seperate the two discussions into two different bills.
They should have been two separate bills the first time. The original was passed in a mad rush the last week of the assembly session back last fall. Unfortunately, passing both parts as separate bills is not politically feasible, so we're effectively stuck with either the entire bill or only the immigration parts.
I'd like to point out that even with these abortion restrictions, the Mideast's abortion laws are far, far looser than they were three years ago when abortion was banned with exceptions for rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother.
We could quite easily take out the immigration parts and put it in a new bill, leaving the abortion part intact.
Which would lead to a better discussion.
