The Daily Beast’s Winston Ross writes an article giving Personhood USA the credit (well, blame) for the flurry of pro-life bills that became law in North Dakota.
One of the bills banned killing babies when their heartbeats could be detected and another banned such killings when done because the babies are genetically imperfect (such as having a third copy of chromosome 21 or having two X chromosomes). A third bill required abortionists to have admitting privileges to a local hospital.
Mr. Ross quotes former North Dakota Senator Curtis Olafson, who might still be a little upset about losing a primary to a real pro-life Republican. From the article:
Olafson proudly asserted that he’s “voted for every pro-life bill that has ever come before me—except personhood bills.” Those bills are nothing but “foolhardy,” Olafson insists, and they’re a waste of everyone’s time.
Olafson seems to be contradicting himself. He would not have voted for the three bills mentioned above, even though they weren’t Personhood bills. If Olafson thinks it’s ok to kill babies simply because they don’t have a Y chromosome, even by his own standard, he’s not really all that pro-life. It seems his former constituency agreed. Here’s what Steve Deace wrote back in June 2012 about the situation:
Sen. Olafson was described by local pro-life organizations as exhibiting a “vast discrepancy between his conduct and his rhetoric,” and as showing “appalling duplicity from a senator who claims to be pro-life.”
In his attempts to derail the North Dakota personhood bill, Sen. Olafson introduced a rabidly pro-abortion amendment. You be the judge, should anyone else consider a legislator who introduced the following language as “pro-life”?
This Act does not apply to “abortion OR other legitimate medical treatment performed to terminate a pregnancy ... (followed by a list of situations where Sen. Olafson believes child murder to be permissible) ”
This amendment would have made abortion (i.e. intentional child killing) the equivalent to legitimate medical treatment! This is hardly pro-life.
You know you’re not really pro-life when pro-aborts such as Renee Stromme call you a “moderate”.
Again from Mr. Ross’s article:
“Many members of the legislature are basing their voting decisions on fear, rather than what is sound,” Olafson said.
“I think the governor was bullied, just like other legislators were bullied, by Personhood USA,” Kromenaker said. “I think they took the easy way out.”
The pro-aborts must have a boogie man, so Personhood USA fits the bill. That well-funded (snicker) out-of-state power house twisted all those arms to pass non-personhood legislation. Boo!
Gualberto Garcia Jones, Personhood USA’s legal analyst, testified in favor of SB 2303, a Personhood bill, which didn’t pass. He noted that the pro-aborts didn’t bother to fight the other bills but instead focused on SB 2303. It appeared as if the Personhood bill provided cover that helped the other bills sail through. Now that’s bullying!
Pro-aborts don’t like bullying and vicious attacks except when they involve ripping up a baby inside (and sometimes outside) the womb. That’s vicious bullying they can believe in.
