PRESS RELEASE: Libertarian Florida State House (District 33) Candidate Franklin Perez Strongly Rises in Opposition to Florida House Bill 1097 that Would Ban Abortion in Florida! Supports Woman's Right to Abortion as Per Roe vs. Wade
From: [email protected] To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] CC: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: PRESS RELEASE: Libertarian FSH-District 33 Candidate Franklin Perez States Opposition to Florida House Bill that Would Ban Abortion in Florida Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 15:41:17 +0000 From: Franklin Perez Florida House District 33 Libertarian Candidate PRESS RELEASE: Libertarian Florida State House (District 33) Candidate Franklin Perez Strongly Rises in Opposition to Florida House Bill 1097 that Would Ban Abortion in Florida! Supports Woman's Right to Abortion as Per Roe vs. Wade Dear Members of the Press and Public: I recently received the below e-mail from NARAL Pro-Choice America in which a Florida House Bill 1097 has been proposed to make abortion illegal in Florida. "Anti-choice lawmakers in Florida have filed one of the worst attacks in the country on a womans right to choose. If this bill passes, abortion would be illegal in the state [of Florida] unless a womans life is at risk. That means no exceptions for a womans health or in cases of rape or incest. This bill goes as far as to threaten doctors who provide abortion care with life in prison if they help women!" I wish to express my STRONG opposition to this Bill. I support a woman's right to an abortion as per the Roe vs. Wade decision without taxpayer funding. This is a personal matter for the woman involved and the state should not get involved. I appreciate and respect people's opposition to abortion. This is an issue I have thought about carefully, and I believe I should give you an explanation as to why I believe in a woman's right to abortion but without taxpayer funding. I am pro-choice. I support a womans right to abortion in the first and second trimesters as per the Roe vs. Wade decision but without taxpayer funding because: 1) An embryo has no rights. Rights do not pertain to a potential, only to an actual being. A child cannot acquire any rights until it is born. The living take precedence over the not-yet-living (or the unborn). [1] 2) Abortion is a moral right which should be left to the sole discretion of the woman involved; morally, nothing other then her wish in the matter is to be considered. Who can conceivably have the right to dictate to her what disposition she is to make of the functions of her own body? [1] 3) Never mind the vicious nonsense of claiming that an embryo has a right to life.' One may argue about the later stages of a pregnancy [such as the later part of the second trimester], but the essential issue concerns only the first three months [i.e., first trimester]. To equate a potential with an actual, is vicious; to advocate the sacrifice of the latter to the former, is unspeakable . [1] 4) Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living: the right of young people to set the course of their own lives. The task of raising a child is a tremendous, lifelong responsibility, which no one should undertake unwittingly or unwillingly. Procreation is not a duty: human beings are not stock-farm animals. For conscientious persons, an unwanted pregnancy is a disaster; to oppose its termination is to advocate sacrifice, not for the sake of anyones benefit, but for the sake of misery qua misery, for the sake of forbidding happiness and fulfillment to living human beings. [1] Now, I would like to address some further questions about the Abortion issue.... What is abortion? "Abortion is the removal of a fetus from the body of its host (a pregnant woman) which typically results in the death of the fetus." [2] What is the essential issue concerning abortion? "The essential question concerning abortion is: does the fetus have an inalienable right to be in the body of its' host against the host's will?" [2] Doesn't a fetus have a right to be in the womb of its host? "A fetus does not have a right to be in the womb of any woman, but is only in there by her permission. This permission may be revoked by the woman at any time. Rights are not permissions; permissions are not rights. This permission is given by the woman, because it is her body -- and not the fetus's body, and certainly not the government's body." [2] "To give a fetus "rights" superior to a pregnant woman is to eradicate the woman's right to her body. The principle here is: any right that contradicts the right of another cannot be a right, as rights form an integrated whole. Contrary to the opinion of anti-lifers (falsely called "pro-lifers" as they are against the life of the actual human being involved) a woman is not a breeding pig." [2] Why is abortion not murder? "Murder is the taking of the life of another human being through the initiation of physical force. Abortion is not murder, because a fetus is not a human being -- it is a potential human being, i.e. it is part of the woman. The concept murder only applies to the initiation of physical force used to destroy an actual human being, i.e., such as when "pro-life" terrorists bomb abortion clinics." [2] Isn't the fetus "life", and therefore has a right to life? "You are equivocating on the term "life" which is a concept that includes everything that is living. Dogs are "life" but they do not have rights. What about ants? So are trees "life", yet they do not have rights (contrary to the mouthing of man-hating environmentalists). Rights only apply to human beings, and not to human tissue." [2] "Rights apply to human beings, because only human beings survive by the use of reason (unlike dogs, trees, ants -- and fetuses). Rights only apply to human beings, because only human beings -- and not parts of beings -- survive by reason. Please keep in mind what a right is: a right is a moral sanction for freedom of action in a social context. A fetus has no rights, as it does not need freedom to take any actions, but survives on the sustenance of its host. The only action it must take is nothing, i.e., wait for itself to develop using the sustenance provided by its host." [2] Do children have no rights? "Children, unlike fetuses, do have rights. A new born child, unlike a fetus, is a physically separate entity. A child is an actual human being, with a capability to reason, and thus a child has the same right to life as any adult. However, the application of this right differs in practice from that of an adult, as a child's conceptual faculty is not fully developed. That is why a six year old does not have the right to choose to enter into a sexual relationship -- and an adult does." [2] For a more detailed position of my support to a woman's right to an abortion on the first and second trimesters without taxpayer funding, please read the http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SemCountyLibs/message/3740 hyperlink. In summary: "Abortion is pro-life; anti-abortion is anti-life." [2] Sources: [1] Pages 1 -2 of the "The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z". [2] http://capitalism.org/faq/abortion.htm Sincerely, Franklin Perez (Libertarian) Florida State House Candidate (District 33) - Year 2010 Libertarian and Independent! Not Beholden to Party Politics! http://www.fperez1776.com http://www.twitter.com/fperez1776 http://twitwall.com/view/?who=fperez1776 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Z1WI2rNqE (407) 694-7805 Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:35:13 -0600 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: The bill to ban abortion in Florida Dear Franklin, Florida lawmakers are trying to outlaw abortion even in cases of rape and incest! Stand up to this attack and contact your representative today!Anti-choice lawmakers in Florida have filed one of the worst attacks in the country on a womans right to choose. If this bill passes, abortion would be illegal in the state unless a womans life is at risk. That means no exceptions for a womans health or in cases of rape or incest. This bill goes as far as to threaten doctors who provide abortion care with life in prison if they help women! We cant waste any time. Tell your representative that you strongly oppose this dangerous bill. Like the abortion ban that anti-choice politicians tried to pass twice in South Dakota only a few years ago, this attack in Florida would ban abortion for all women even for survivors of rape or incest. South Dakotans said no twice, and now Floridians need to do the same. Tell your lawmaker that you strongly oppose the new abortion-ban bill. Thank you for standing up against this anti-choice attack. Well keep you posted about this situation in Florida. My best, Nancy Keenan President, NARAL Pro-Choice America Tell your friends about the Choice Action Network. If you received this message from a friend, you can sign up for the Choice Action Network. To update your profile, click here. If you would like to unsubscribe from the Choice Action Network, please click here. © Copyright 2010 NARAL Pro-Choice America & NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation. All rights reserved. According to the http://capitalism.org/faq/abortion.htm hyperlink: Abortion is pro-life; anti-abortion is anti-life What is abortion? Abortion is the removal of a fetus from the body of its host (a pregnant woman) which typically results in the death of the fetus. What is the essential issue concerning abortion? The essential question concerning abortion is: does the fetus have an inalienable right to be in the body of its' host against the host's will? Doesn't a fetus have a right to be in the womb of its host? A fetus does not have a right to be in the womb of any woman, but is only in there by her permission. This permission may be revoked by the woman at any time. Rights are not permissions; permissions are not rights. This permission is given by the woman, because it is her body -- and not the fetus's body, and certainly not the government's body. To give a fetus "rights" superior to a pregnant woman is to eradicate the woman's right to her body. The principle here is: any right that contradicts the right of another cannot be a right, as rights form an integrated whole. Contrary to the opinion of anti-lifers (falsely called "pro-lifers" as they are against the life of the actual human being involved) a woman is not a breeding pig. Why is abortion not murder? Murder is the taking of the life of another human being through the initiation of physical force. Abortion is not murder, because a fetus is not a human being -- it is a potential human being, i.e. it is part of the woman. The concept murder only applies to the initiation of physical force used to destroy an actual human being, i.e., such as when "pro-life" terrorists bomb abortion clinics. Isn't the fetus "life", and therefore has a right to life? You are equivocating on the term "life" which is a concept that includes everything that is living. Dogs are "life" but they do not have rights. What about ants? So are trees "life", yet they do not have rights (contrary to the mouthing of man-hating environmentalists). Rights only apply to human beings, and not to human tissue. Rights apply to human beings, because only human beings survive by the use of reason (unlike dogs, trees, ants -- and fetuses). Rights only apply to human beings, because only human beings -- and not parts of beings -- survive by reason. Please keep in mind what a right is: a right is a moral sanction for freedom of action in a social context. A fetus has no rights, as it does not need freedom to take any actions, but survives on the sustenance of its host. The only action it must take is nothing, i.e., wait for itself to develop using the sustenance provided by its host. What is the capitalist view on abortion? Given the above, under capitalism abortion is an inalienable right. Any one who advocates the outlawing of abortion -- like Steve Forbes -- is an enemy of individual rights, and thus of capitalism. Do children have no rights? Children, unlike fetuses, do have rights. A new born child, unlike a fetus, is a physically separate entity. A child is an actual human being, with a capability to reason, and thus a child has the same right to life as any adult. However, the application of this right differs in practice from that of an adult, as a child's conceptual faculty is not fully developed. That is why a six year old does not have the right to choose to enter into a sexual relationship -- and an adult does. = [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/join (Yahoo! 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