Election Results on Pro-Life Issues
Hadley Arkes on NRO sums up the matter pretty well in yesterday's article - http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ODRlNmE1YzlkYmI3YWZjNjA1ZTk0N2FiMWI1MzZjMzg=
Looks like approximately 14 pro-life seats were lost in the House, the leadership in place in at least the House and possibly the Senate, is not pro-life, and it is expected that no serious pro-life legislation will be put on the floor during the 110th Congress.
The biggest upcoming fight will be the appropriation riders (provisions that specify how funds are spent and have to be renewed every year) that protect things like the moral status of embryos (Dickey-Wicker), the conscience of medical providers (Weldon-Hyde), and no funding to foreign aid providers who provide abortion (Mexico City Policy). This fight will begin in the next few days and weeks for FY07 appropriation bills and then be picked up again in the Spring for the FY08 bills.
Also, note that Prop 85 in CA (parental notification for minors seeking abortions) is on its way to failure. The abortion ban in South Dakota failed. Human cloning and Embryonic Stem Cell research were both made a constitutional right in the state of Missouri.
November 7, 2006 will not be remembered as a good day for those fighting to remove the ugly specter of abortion in our country.
Looks like approximately 14 pro-life seats were lost in the House, the leadership in place in at least the House and possibly the Senate, is not pro-life, and it is expected that no serious pro-life legislation will be put on the floor during the 110th Congress.
The biggest upcoming fight will be the appropriation riders (provisions that specify how funds are spent and have to be renewed every year) that protect things like the moral status of embryos (Dickey-Wicker), the conscience of medical providers (Weldon-Hyde), and no funding to foreign aid providers who provide abortion (Mexico City Policy). This fight will begin in the next few days and weeks for FY07 appropriation bills and then be picked up again in the Spring for the FY08 bills.
Also, note that Prop 85 in CA (parental notification for minors seeking abortions) is on its way to failure. The abortion ban in South Dakota failed. Human cloning and Embryonic Stem Cell research were both made a constitutional right in the state of Missouri.
November 7, 2006 will not be remembered as a good day for those fighting to remove the ugly specter of abortion in our country.
posted by Speaking of Life... at 2:12 PM
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