Pro-Life Legislation

[Ebowed]

You are mixing "equal" and "same." Would you grant someone a place in a GT program simply because they are pregnant?

It's ok to place kids who learn faster in a GT program, because they're not the same as other kids; but if you wait until a woman gives birth to carry out her death sentence, it's a violation of equal rights?  No offense, I just don't see your logic here.

One argument I could understand is that because only women can get pregnant, such a bill provides a loophole for (fertile) women who have been sentenced to death.  While that's a valid point, I find it unimportant in the grand scheme of things (due to my view on the point at which life begins), so we would have to agree to disagree.

[opebo]

No on all.  What business is it of the federal government what a woman does with her own body?  Besides, they're all unconstitutional violations of the Right to Privacy.

LOL

Did you even read what the last one does?

Unless you think executing women while they're pregnant is an "unconstitutional violation of the Right to Privacy."

I don't think anyone should be executed by the State.  However, I find it irrelevant whether she is pregnant. 

[Brandon H]

Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act     Yes
Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act    Yes
Child Custody Protection Act      Yes
Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act     No
Human Cloning Prohibition Act    Yes
RU-486 Suspension and Review Act     Yes
Unborn Victims of Violence Act     Yes
Born-Alive Infants Protection Act     Yes
Innocent Child Protection Act      Yes
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Right to Life Act Yes

Sanctity of Life Act Yes

We The People Act Yes

[angus]

I think I'd be tempted to support the first one, but I'm not sure.  Last one is tricky since I oppose capital punishment.  If I understand it correctly I would support it as well, but then I'd likely support any bill that might decrease the number of executions.  There's one other that wouldn't ever come up because it tries to curtail interstate travel, which state legislatures can't do.  I think.  On all the others I'd vote against.

As a member of congress I'd vote against all of them except the last one.  You could argue over whether congress has the ability to deny states the right to execute anyone, and take it to the Supreme Court, but in the meantime maybe somebody would be spared from capital punishment.  Guess I'm sort of pro-Life, then.

[WalterMitty]

Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act     yes
Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act    Yes
Child Custody Protection Act      no
Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act     yes
Human Cloning Prohibition Act    Yes
RU-486 Suspension and Review Act     no
Unborn Victims of Violence Act     Yes
Born-Alive Infants Protection Act     Yes
Innocent Child Protection Act      Yes