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Written by Eddie Konczal
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Saturday, 11 October 2008 |
CourierPOstOnline.com • October 11, 2008
http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20081011/OPINION/810110301/1047
Many Americans agree, whether pro-life or pro-choice, that reducing the overall number of abortions is a worthy goal. However, legislation exists in Congress that would threaten the fragile common ground that has been achieved so far on the issue of abortion.
The Freedom of Choice Act (or FOCA; S.1173 in the Senate and H.R. 1964 in the House) would allegedly ". . . protect, consistent with Roe v. Wade, a woman's freedom to choose to bear a child or terminate a pregnancy."
In fact, FOCA would go way beyond codifying Roe v. Wade by eliminating many sensible restrictions on abortion that most Americans support such as parental notification for minors seeking to have an abortion and bans on late-term and partial-birth abortion procedures.
I have written my senators and representative in Congress, as well as Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., expressing my opposition to FOCA and asking them to reconsider their sponsorship of this extreme and unnecessary legislation.
I urge concerned citizens who believe in maintaining sensible restrictions on abortion to do likewise.
EDDIE KONCZAL
Monroe
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