COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho – Anti-abortion advocates in northern Idaho say they are collecting signatures for a ballot initiative that would outlaw abortion in Idaho.
The Coeur d’Alene Press (http://bit.ly/2hUWDIF) reports that Abolish Abortion Idaho, a grassroots citizen group, wants to change Idaho law to make people who perform or have an abortion face a penalty of first-degree murder. The petition would ban any exceptions for cases of rape, incest or when the mother’s health is in danger.
Scott Herndon, an activist with the group, says that supporters want Idaho to ignore federal law that recognizes a constitutional right to an abortion.
“If a woman faces the very real consequences of a first-degree murder penalty, we are confident it will act as a deterrent to abortion,” he said.
Herndon added that he was unsure of how many signatures he collected so far as of Friday.
Statewide ballot initiatives must have signatures from 6 percent of the total of those who voted in the last presidential election from 18 out of Idaho’s 35 legislative districts. That means Abolish Abortion Idaho must have at least 56,000 verified signatures to make it on the 2018 ballot.
The ballot would need a simple majority to pass if it makes it on the ballot.
Chuck Wilkes Jr., lead pastor at True North, a Church of the Nazarene in Hayden, said he had concerns over the legal challenges the proposal faces.
“The use of criminal sanctions simply compounds a bad situation,” he wrote in an email to The Press, adding his comments are his own and not a reflection of his pastoral position. “The use of first-degree murder charges is not appropriate for these situations.”
By Associated Press
http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20170101/idaho-group-pushes-proposal-to-outlaw-abortion
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January 2, 2017 at 3:19 pm
Well, to cheer us up despite the news from the ignoramuses in Idaho, here’s the second segment about the Baby Store, where every pregnant woman comes out with a baby at a rate (per our national birthrate average) of one every nine seconds. We left off at a minute and a half:
•Every minute and a half a baby is born whose family pays more than half of its income for rent- two and a half times the national average
•Every minute and a half a baby will be born to a child
•Every minute and a half, a child is born who will experience lifelong depression
•Every minute and forty-five seconds a child will be born at an extremely low birth weight, at risk for school failure and for a felony conviction
•Every two minutes and twelve seconds, a girl baby will be born whose sexual abuse will begin at about age two and continue until about age 14
•Every three minutes, a girl will be born who will herself become a pregnant teenager
• Every three minutes, a child is born who will live in a household with no parent present
• Every three minutes and 18 seconds a boy will be born to suffer sexual abuse
•Every five minutes a child will be born who will run away from home. Almost every other child will be running away because of intolerable family conditions
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Of course, none of the above carry any weight with so-called “pro-lifers,” since they would rather see children suffer and be crippled and doomed for life rather than wanted and cared for.
But wait! There’s more. . .
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January 2, 2017 at 4:32 pm
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