NPR: Ohio bill shows Brinkmanship on abortion
Never let it be said that state Rep. Tom Brinkman does anything halfway.Brinkman, R-Mount Lookout, works his district's chicken-dinner circuit like every day was the day before an election.
When the Ohio House seemed ready to take up "concealed carry" legislation allowing residents permits to strap on firearms, Brinkman carried around a Vermont-style amendment -- allowing the right to carry with no restrictions -- for months, just waiting for a bill to attach it to.
So when National Public Radio went looking for a state where lawmakers were looking to abolish abortion completely, they interviewed -- who else? -- Brinkman.
With the 33rd anniversary of the Supreme Court decision establishing a right to abortion and Samuel Alito's imminent confirmation to the Supreme Court, Brinkman's nine-month-old House Bill 228 is starting to get national attention.
In an interview that aired this morning, Brinkman told NPR's Libby Lewis he was tired of the "incremental change" favored by the "old" pro-life movement, and wanted to force an unambiguous reconsideration of Roe v. Wade by passing state legislation to ban abortion completely.
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Post a Comment*May God bless this man and bestow upon him health, prosperity and legislative and political success.
-- Jed
I admire Mr. Brinkman for always standing up for what he believes, regardless of the political backlash that may occur.
It seems Mr. Brinkman as with most Right-to-lifers have chosen not to remember that there was a reason for passing legislation to allow legal abortion. Oh yeah, it was the back-alley abortions that killed thousands, if not tens of thousands, of mothers and their unborn. They deceive themselves into thinking that abortion never existed before that day that the Supreme Court ruled that a woman has a right to determine her own fate. So let's move forward into the past and let those back-alley chopshops open up again and then we can bring the homes for unwed mothers where women can go after having the Scarlet letters tattooed on their foreheads. Last, Mr. Brinkman needs to remember that he represents all the voters in his district, not just the ones that agree with his twisted view of life.
Mr. Brinkman is a just a plain nut. Abortion is a very tough subject for me because I am a life long roman catholic. But to put forth a bill with no exception for rape or incest is absurd to me. Just think of the mental damage to a woman/girl who was raped or was forced into sex with their father or brother. And then ask them to carry around for 9 months a constant reminder of the most heinous violation of ones personal liberties. I say choose life - but I will never agree to a complete overturning of Roe vs Wade. Brinkman is just a knucklehead who reminds me of Baby Huey.
"...there was a reason for passing legislation to allow legal abortion."
Legislation was not passed to legalize abortion. Nine unelected judges decided the issue for the entire nation. Overturning Roe v. Wade would not criminalize abortion; it would turn the issue back to each individual state legislature comprised of elected representatives for consideration.
"Oh yeah, it was the back-alley abortions that killed thousands, if not tens of thousands, of mothers and their unborn."
This is unfactual propaganda designed to frame the argument as a women's health issue while ignoring the issue of the life of the unborn child.
http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/facts/responseargument4.html
Tom Brinkman is the foremost state legislator in the nation on many fronts. The old Right to Life movement has failed. Brinkman has the right idea -- force direction confrontation between good and evil, darkness and light.
Naturally the "legal abortion" defenders -- those who find it acceptable that 40 million Americans who would all be under the age of 33 years old -- fear this.
Randy Kleine talks about misleading a victim of rape or incest. Well Mr. Kleine have you had your daughter raped and impregnated by several members of a different race like I have? If not, you ought to think twice about spouting off about feelings of guilt and self loathing. And I do not need some yahoo telling me about my roman catholic religion. I will answer to god and people who state my personal beliefs concerning rape and incest are against my catholic religion are making judgements that only god can make. Why don't we all put all our efforts to the real problem which is unwanted pregnancies. And forcing people to have babies they do not want only brings more unwanted children in the world. If you want to see examples of unwanted kids that were brought into the world just drive around the Findlay Market area and look at all the people just standing around. Have you ever looked at the demographics of abortion? Who is going to raise and pay for all these kids assumming the woman still does not want the child after being forced by Brinkman's law to have it? It is not as easy an issue as you make it out to be. Again I say choose life - but those are 2 words: life which is god's gift to us and choice, which means everyone is not going to think the same about a very personal issue that hits home with some folks alot more than others.
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