New information condemns abortions
No women will die.
"Let Women Die" bill (H.R. 358) is liberal fear-mongering at its best. The Democratic-controlled Senate passed Obamacare with federal funding for abortion. President Barack Obama signed an executive order prohibiting federal funding for abortion. This is the problem.
Congress may overturn an executive order by passing legislation in conflict with it. The president himself can rescind his executive order or the next president can.
That is why H.R. 358 was put on the legislative calendar. The First Amendment prohibits the federal government from imposing morality on its citizens any more than it can impose religion.
Justice Harry Blackmun stated in the majority opinion of Roe that "at this point in the development of man's knowledge," we can "not resolve the difficult question of when life begins." He further states that "if this suggestion of (fetal) personhood is established, the (case in support of legal abortion) collapses, for the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the (14th) Amendment."
Since 1973, there have been major breakthroughs in medical technology.
We can now detect a fetal heartbeat only five weeks after conception and fetal brain waves can be measured at just eight weeks. A ultrasound allows us to see a baby as he moves, sleeps and sucks his thumb in the womb. Science and technology now prove that life begins at conception.
The unborn child feels pain. The same pain you would feel if your arms and legs were ripped off.
Cosmo Stallone
Harpursville
Kids learn, process things differently
It has been proven that there is a direct correlation between the amount of kids dropping out of school and the amount of people who end up in prison. More and more kids are falling behind in the school systems because they are not receiving the proper help.
Every kid learns and understands information differently.
Many kids fall behind their classmates because of the way they process information and the way their brain works.
Often teachers are never trained to teach and to help each student fulfill their needs. This then causes a cycle of kids being pushed along or dropping out and not achieving their potential.
Many families spend countless hours and dollars trying to fight for their children's educational rights. They file for due process rights based on state and national laws such as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE), and Response to Intervention (RtI).
Cases are heard by an Impartial Hearing Officer (IHO), all at the taxpayers' expense.
School teachers, psychologists, special-education directors and more are called into the hearings.
If the family does not prevail, then the case goes to the State Review Officer (SRO) at New York State Education, or further.
The schools and the children's names are kept confidential due to Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) laws, so it is difficult or impossible for parents to start class-action suits, and so the cycle continues.
See cases here: http://www.sro.nysed.gov/decision
Many families do not have a positive outcome with their due process educational rights.
Many cases are dismissed. Families are shot down and told no, when they are just trying to fight for a fair education for their children. No parent should ever have to accept a lesser education for their child.
N. O'Connor
Oneonta
