Not only would Senator Christine Kehoe's abortion bill put pregnant mothers at risk, hospital staff who would be authorized to implement this procedure would be at greater risk of accusations of misconduct.
President Bill Clinton asserted that abortion should be "safe, legal, and rare." An intensive must be added to rare and a minimal endorsement at best to "legal".
Why is the state of California expanding the number of medical officials who can perform abortions? Why not cutting the role of government as much as possible out of our lives? Why not stick up for the unborn? Where are the offers for expanding adoption? Streamlining the bureaucracy so that couples who desire to adopt could receive the rights of guardianship with the excessive political logrolling would serve the state better than easing the inception of abortion in the state.
Besides, economists have established, rather ruefully, that abortion on demand has actually increased the rates of illegitimate births in this country, and all of the deviant behavior which accompanies the poor upbringing of youth by young mothers, unmarried and uneducated and in larger numbers unemployed.
What has Senator Kehoe offered in the way of relaxing regulations against job growth? Has she sponsored any legislation that would reduce the tax burden on state residents? Instead of pushing wedge issues which do not address the fiscal calamities dragging the state into insolvency, the state senator fromSan Diego ought to consider drafting legislation which would accelerate the speed by which the legislature can repeal bad laws instead of passing more laws altogether. Abort bad laws, not children — now there's a legislative appeal that we need to hear.