Spitzer the Most Ardent Pro-Abortionist
The right-to-life movement is not sorry to see Governor Eliot Spitzer leave public office. He is well-known as a zealot prosecutor, but few outside of
At his January 9 State of the State address, Spitzer said: “Given the continued efforts at the federal level to dismantle protection for women’s reproductive health and privacy, I ask you to pass the ‘Reproductive Health and Privacy protection Act'”—known as RHAPP.
Here are some of the disastrous provisions of RHAPP:
- Remove criminal penalties even from unlawful abortions.
- Forbid any protections, such as parental notification, even for young teenagers
- Effectively prevent even an unborn child who is the intended victim of a crime from being recognized as a victim
- Mandate Medicaid funding for abortion-on-demand through all nine months of pregnancy
- Redefine pregnancy as beginning at implantation – not fertilization
- Negatively redefine fetal viability
Will Lt. Governor David Paterson be any better? Time will tell.