Freedom of Choice Act

Today thousands of pro-life demonstrators descended on Washington for the annual March for Life to mark the 36th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision.

The Obama Administration must soon begin delivering its payoffs to the groups that propelled the 44th president on his stunning drive to the White House. First up, the Employee Free Choice Act, which would replace union certification elections with a sham process reminiscent of the Stalinist era. Check out the Dec. 4, 2008 post about that.

Next up, the so-called Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). The leftists who now control two of our three branches of government love giving their big-foot federal legislation these Orwellian names as a way to disguise their true intent.



In point of fact, FOCA is not meant to provide choice; it's true intention is to disenfranchise millions of state voters--half of them women--and their elected officials who have courageously put into place numerous pieces of legislation that lend some sanity to the process of abortion.

The National Abortion Rights Action League, which in an effort to fool centrist voters has morphed into NARAL Pro Choice America, says that FOCA's purpose is "to restore the right to choose" as defined in the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.



But the reality is that it would do the opposite. The federal law would "pre-empt" or invalidate laws passed by more than half the states. In doing so it would invalidate the democratically express will of millions of women voters and their legislatures.



Take a look:

• Under FOCA parents would not have to be notified of, or consent to, abortions by their minor children. Today half the states have notification/consent laws which have safeguards that have passed constitutional muster. FOCA would invalidate these laws, in the process taking away parents rights and responsibilities for the health of their children.


• FOCA would take away the right of healthcare professionals to choose whether to provide or pay for abortions. Healthcare professionals would lose the right to choose whether or not to participate or pay for an abortion according to the dictates of their consciences. Their moral compass would be replaced by a Federal bureaucracy.


• FOCA would make it illegal to require that girls and women seeking abortions receive information on fetal develop and alternatives to the process, and wait for a period of time before the abortion is performed. These women would lose the right to make an informed, reflective choice.

Far from expanding choice, FOCA would invalidate the choices women have democratically made at the ballot box in the states, electing pro-life candidates, as well as choices that women legislators have made in state capitols around the country, voting for sensible legislation that works within the framework of Row v. Wade.

Bottom line: The abortion lobby cannot afford to have people finally realize that groups like NARAL do not speak for the majority of American women. They cannot let the public see that their "all in" view of abortion is not shared universally by American women.

When the public realizes that, donations and funding to groups like NARAL, NOW, and Planned Parenthood will drop dramatically. Fortunately, the more they try to wrap themselves in constitutional clothing, the more we realize it's really about their money and the power in Washington that it buys.

So their answer is the un-democratization of women--taking away the choices women have made at the state level and disenfranchising them as voters, as women, and as mothers. All so that NARAL, et al. can continue to raise money to put compliant politicians like Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Gerry Nadler (D-NY), the sponsors of this putsch, in their shopping carts every two years.
Just thought you might like to know.