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Anti-abortion group refiles Nevada personhood initiative
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Updated: Feb. 9, 2012 | 8:16 a.m.
CARSON CITY -- An anti-abortion group has refiled for a third time a Nevada prenatal personhood initiative that seeks to ban birth control, embryonic stem cell research or other procedures that intentionally kill a fetus.
The Nevada Prolife Coalition says the refiling on Monday seeks to address legal challenges raised in a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union and a Planned Parenthood coalition that an earlier version didn't specify the initiative was a proposed constitutional amendment.
The suit filed in state court in Carson City argued the initiative is confusing and doesn't adequately explain to voters the effect it would have on birth control or other medical procedures.
No exceptions are made in the prenatal personhood initiative to allow abortions for pregnancies that occur from rape or incest.
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I am suspicious that lawyers are not going to make clear cases. As long as this law suit is continued over and over, they can keep their income up. Maybe they want to have fund to lose money at craps table? They will not play slot machines. Big fees. Wow.
I am not familiar on this subject. So, I am going to write about Japan that has freedom of abortion. A majority of College educated females stay single. Still male-female separated society. Lucky girls who honed their skill of maid-wife may be accepted by a man's house to be a maid-bride wife. Then after one or two children, they use some kind of linen on them so that they wouldn't be a pregnant. Result is reducing population. Now you know why Japanese large corporations make TVs and cars here. Men and Women? In separated school system in Japan, they practice gay or lesbian. Abortion clinics were shrunk now. They think they are lucky Japan do not have only-one-son-in-one family regulation like china where police sit to kill new born. Oh, raped women who become pregnant? If they can't afford to abort, they simply lay on the railroad track to wait for train comes on them. Chu Chu does not discourage them. We had to across the railroad to go to an elementary school when I was a kid. We, boys and girls, once in a while pulled out a crying woman until train passed. After that we brought to my house so that my mother could help her, boys and girls separated and went to our school. My father was a womanizer, just like any Japanese men, so he did not hesitate to help them, but they did not abort. I think the best solution to reduce abortion is illegaize man-woman marriages. Then we don't have to worry about anti-abortionists' activities. Rape victim, I haven't figured out. I have 5 grown up children - no abortion. Fortunately, none of them inherited my big mouth. By aborting, we might lose future somebodys. Anti-abortionists can show the example by never-sex at all by themselves. Sorry I offended to abortionists and anti-abortionists.
Hey Prolife Coalition---neither you nor anyone else has the right to tell woman what to do with their bodies. IF I want to go have an abortion every year, it is my right and you will not tell me what to do!!!! THere are far more important things going on in the United States-homelessness, hunger, joblessness. Pick something that will help people instead of control people.
Sorry folks. This legislation didn't pass in much more conservative states, such as Colorado and Missouri. It's sure not going to pass in Nevada. And by the way conservatives: why is it you all want small unintrusive government until it comes time to start talking about people's sex lives and the consequences thereof??? Then it's: open up your bedroom doors and let Big Brother in!
Psalm 137:9, New International Version (NIV)
9 Happy is the one who seizes your infants
and dashes them against the rocks.
If a fetus endangers the life of the mother, then the mother should have the right of self-defense, and have the fetus aborted.
"Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Now, they are going to try to define what the founders would have defined "life" over 200 years ago. Why don't they try "liberty" or "happiness"?Why don't they think we should have the "liberty" to make a decision among and between those closely affected. "Happiness" could soon be defined as not having to put up with this faction in our lives. Why not apply this effort to those that are living? Those dealing with drugs, alcohol, abuse of any nature that are already doing something today that is illegal. How many drug babies are born each year? (I hate the news when someone overdoses. I have a memory of a woman bleeding to death in a motel room from a botched abortion.) I am Pro-life all the way, but I am Pro-Choice for you, all the way. You make the right decision. This should not have to be challenged every time we have elections. Right now, a lot of people need a job, a home, the safety needed to raise kids that have a "right" to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness".
@marla. false argument. it takes two to tangle. punishing a kid in the womb is not a good response to criticizing weak people for having sex irresponsibly.
If memory serves, the guy who is sponsoring this initiative is a lawyer.
This petition has nothing to do with abortion and everything to do with reinforcing the (illegitimate) idea that lawyers can sink an initiative even before voters have had their say.
Government BY the lawyers, FOR the lawyers.
If men could become pregnant, safe, legal abortion would be sacrosanct.