Yesterday was the third reading deadline for the House and Senate. All the bills that didn’t clear their respective first House are not dead. But, as we know from last year’s Lazarus-like DST bill, dead is not dead. The living bills can become unwilling hosts for undead legislation. Rep. Heim did a good job of giving us a blow-by-blow in the House as it happened.
The Journal Gazette has stories on:
The Indy Star has:
One bill would have given the poorest children taxpayer-funded vouchers to attend full-day kindergarten at any school, even a private one. Lawmakers rejected that 52-46, a victory for public education supporters who feared this would drain money from their schools.
The other bill would have withheld publicly funded aid — from health care to a college education — from illegal immigrants. The House soundly defeated the measure 74-19, a victory for the state’s Hispanic community, a few of whom watched through windows from outside the House chamber.
Would these abortion clinic regulations apply to hospitals too? Because if so, women are going to die. There’s a blogger I follow who had to terminate a pregnancy at 21 weeks or else she would have died. If this rule was to apply to hospitals, she would have died.
Have they even considered this?
Nope. “Abortion clinic” is defined to exclude hospitals, physicians’ offices (unless the offices are used primarily to perform abortions), and outpatient ambulatory surgical centers.
But, I think there are a fair number of anti-choice advocates who don’t particularly care if a woman lives or dies. To them, life is only valuable before birth and after brain death. That’s why you see a lot more energy spent by these people fighting abortion and euthanasia than you do making sure that the children who are born are healthy, well-educated, and live lives above the poverty line.
“…fair number of anti-choice advocates who don’t particularly care if a woman lives or dies”
That’s not very fair. I doubt there are many, if any, pro-life people that feel that way.
However, I do very much agree that there are more than a fair number that focus only on “before birth and after brain death” and just plain ignore everything else. You can not agrue that you value life if you don’t care about the quality of life that the people around you have.
Yeah, I was probably a bit out of bounds with the “lives or dies” characterization. Though, in my “defense”, I did use the weasel words “fair number.” That could mean almost anything. But I won’t hide behind that. Perhaps I could say that, compared to the issue of outlawing abortion, there are a fair number that do not make the woman’s health and safety a priority in their deliberations.