Similar attempts thwarted in other states
By Dave Andrusko

Pro-abortion Gov. John Carney
The headline to an Associated Press story today is classic bad news/good news: “Delaware protects abortion rights, efforts stall elsewhere.”
And the bad news is very bad. Planned Parenthood successfully lobbied the Delaware legislature which is about to create a regime of abortion on demand throughout pregnancy. The AP’s Randall Chase writes that pro-abortion Democratic Gov. John Carney said he will sign the measure which eliminates all the limitations on abortion that exist in the Diamond State. Last month he bill passed in the Senate by a margin of 11-7 and on Tuesday was approved 22-16 in the House.
Chase very much mischaracterizes the existing law, making it appear to be much, much more protective than it is. But the point remains the same. Nothing currently on the books, no matter how limited in its reach, will remain after Carney signs the new bill.
The real significance of the new bill is that Carney’s signature means abortion on demand Is now the law in Delaware.
The new law allows abortion without restriction before a baby reaches “viability” which the abortionist gets to determine. But “The bill also allows abortion after viability if a doctor determines that an abortion is necessary to protect the woman’s life or health, or that the baby is not likely to survive without extraordinary medical measures.”
Chase adds, unnecessarily, “That provision led critics to say the bill opens the way to late-term abortions”–as if allowing abortions up until viability doesn’t already make possible “late-term abortions.”
You couldn’t get a better example of the way pro-abortionists try to hide what will happen in these “late-term abortions” than this exchange captured by reporter Chase.
In introducing an unsuccessful amendment to prohibit abortion after 20 weeks, Rep. Timothy Dukes, R-Laurel, described a late-term abortion procedure known as dilation and evacuation, in which a fetus is dismembered and removed from the womb.
“The methodology of the actual medical procedure is not germane to the bill,” interjected Rep. Sean Lynn, a Dover Democrat.
Just so we’re all clear. A “methodology” which uses steel tools to tear apart a well-developed unborn child, limb from limb, until she bleeds to death, is not “germane.”
The good news Chase reports is that similar efforts in other states have thus far been thwarted, including states where you might expect them to pass.
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