Lost in the news … with
so much reporting on the candidates on the campaign trail … Life News reported: Wisconsin Gov. Scott
Walker signed into law a pro-life bill that would ban abortions after 20-weeks
of pregnancy. States do not have the
ability under Roe v. Wade to ban all
abortions, so pro-life groups are using a 20-week ban as a test case to get the
U.S. Supreme Court to roll back the legalization of unlimited abortion on
demand.
“At five months an
unborn child can feel pain,” Walker said before signing the bill. “As a society we should be protecting that
child.”
Needless to say, the
timing of this law couldn’t be better for presidential candidate Walker. Its passage will no doubt serve to confirm his
credentials as a social conservative and pro-life warrior. As a Christian and pro-life advocate, Walker
believes that banning the evident painful abortions after 20-weeks gestation is
morally right and justified. The majority
of Americans also happen to agree with him.
Politically speaking, the passage of such a controversial law also
underscores Walker’s growing skill and effectiveness as a chief executive.
Wisconsin becomes the
15th state to ban abortions at 20-weeks … which is just a couple weeks before
unborn babies are viable and can survive outside the womb. Under the law, an abortion practitioner who
kills an unborn baby in an abortion after 20-weeks faces 3-years in prison and
a $10,000 fine.
At the federal level, the
U.S. House of Representatives passed a similar bill last spring — which (among
other things) outlaws late-term abortion in all 50-states. The measure will be taken up and debated by
the US Senate later this year.
It’s never too soon for
Christians to communicate with their respective senators to vote in favor of
this bill to ban late-term abortions.
Rev.
Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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