Urgent Action Alert: Do Dillon and Cherry support Dems' radical ANTI-CHOICE legislation?
An early contender for the "most patently ridiculous quote of the year," Warren's embarrassing attempt at quasi-ethical faux-reason was, apparently, an attempt to rationalize her support for House Bill 5164, legislation that ignores longstanding, bipartisan state and national standards and legally forces pharmacists to fill prescriptions for the "abortion pill" despite personal, moral or religious objections.
The bill is cosponsored by twenty-three other House Democrats.
Currently, health care workers, including the good folks who after a badly skinned knee fill the prescription for your child's antibiotics, are legally entitled to refuse to participate in procedures they object to ethically. Like, say, killing kids.
That's not sitting "in judgment" of a doctor and a patient. That's sitting in judgment of one's own conscience and actions, Representative.
Unfortunately, that's not even the most insidious legislation just introduced by members of a political Party beholden above everything else to the multi-billion dollar abortion-on-demand industry.
Warren and twenty other House Democrats have also introduced House Bill 5158, effectively designed to drive crisis pregnancy centers out of business. The legislation creates fresh regulation that mandates each and every non-profit CPC in the state provide, in writing, information about where and how to acquire an abortion, including directions showing pregnant women how to get to the abortion clinic.
The real irony in all of this is just how patently ANTI-CHOICE each of these bills is. Eliminating pharmacists' choice on whether or not to physically participate in a procedure they may consider anything from mildly objectionable to a mortal sin, all via government mandate and the threat of force doesn't exactly promote that whole "liberty" concept.
Meanwhile, the Crisis Pregnancy Center legislation is inarguably designed to force pro-life organizations to permanently close their doors, leaving hurting women with only one option... pro-abortion Planned Parenthood.
Each of the bills has been referred to the House Judiciary committee, chaired by Democrat Mark Meadows. Meadows is the primary sponsor on the anti-CPC bill and a co-sponsor on the pharmacists-as-abortionists mandate. We know where he stands.
There are two prominent Michigan Democrats whose opinion we still don't know, though.
House Speaker Andy Dillon, a man who has been endorsed by Michigan Right to Life in cycles past and one who is rumored to be considering a run at the Governor's office next year, has not commented publicly on the bills making their way through his chamber.
Similarly, Lieutenant Governor and 2010 Gubernatorial candidate John Cherry has been silent on his party's pro-abortion, anti-choice legislation.
Michigan voters have a right to know where each of them stand.
Three listings follow. No excuses. Please find five minutes today... right now, on your lunch break, on the road in between meetings... whenever... and drop an email and CALL Mark Meadows, John Cherry and Andy Dillon.
Tell them what YOU think about the Democrats' anti-choice legislation, ask Meadows and Dillon to stop the insanity before it reaches the House floor and ask Andy Dillon and John Cherry whether or not they support their Party's shockingly anti-choice legislation, HBs 5158 and 5164.
Then swing back by and let everyone know what they said!
John Cherry
Phone: (517) 853-8050
Email: ltgovcherry@michigan.gov
Andy Dillon
Phone: (888) 737-3455
Email: andydillon@house.mi.gov
Mark Meadows
Phone: (517) 373-1786
Email: markmeadows@house.mi.gov
http://www.rightmichigan.com/story/2009/7/7/71022/61611
The real irony in all of this is just how patently ANTI-CHOICE each of these bills is. Eliminating pharmacists' choice on whether or not to physically participate in a procedure they may consider anything from mildly objectionable to a mortal sin, all via government mandate and the threat of force doesn't exactly promote that whole "liberty" concept.
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I do not live in Michigan, but I hope those pro-life people that do will contact their state legislators and urge them to oppose the two pro-abortion bills that would force pharmacists to abandon their pro-life convictions and effectively shut down crisis pregnancy centers.
ReplyDeleteThese very efforts by pro-abortion legislators on both the national and state levels have been astir over recent years. One of the most extreme anti-life political efforts was carried out by one-time Democrat Attorney General Eliot Spitzer of New York state. Spitzer seemed to have a special vendetta against pro-life crisis pregnancy centers, doing his utmost to close them down. Later Spitzer ran for governor of New York on a platform of promising "ethics and integrity to be the hallmark of his administration. . ." He became the governor of New York state. You and some of your readers may recall that in May 2008 Spitzer had to resign from the governor's office after being caught in a prostituion ring scandal. Poetic justice perhaps.