Would you sign a contract you did not read, knowing that the contract was about life and death? Well, Virginia Delegate Dawn Adams (Richmond) signed a bill about just that issue and it never dawned on Dawn to read the damn thing.
Or so she now says.
After she co-sponsored an extremely horrifying abortion bill that would allow a baby to be killed right up until the head is about to leave the birth canal, and amid a strong backlash to so-called "moderate", Gov. Ralph Northam's defense of allowing the murder to take place, even if the baby is born alive, Adams backtracked and sent a letter to her constituents Wednesday evening. She apologized to them and claimed that she "did not read" the bill that she co-sponsored. She did not read the bill she co-sponsored?
If she is lying about it, and is only apologizing to remain in office, she sucks as a human being. If she's telling the truth, she sucks as a government employee and is incompetent. But either way, she sucks.
"I made a mistake, and all I know to do is to admit it, tell the truth, and let the chips fall where they may," Adams wrote in a
newsletter reported by the
Richmond Times-Dispatch. "If you follow my newsletter or have written to me to ask about my votes, you know that I do my best to read and research every bill I vote on. But I did not read a bill I agreed to co-patron and that wasn’t smart or typical. I will work harder and be better for it."
Adams then vaguely referenced some of the controversy swirling around the bill she co-sponsored along with fellow Democrat Delegate Kathy Tran (Fairfax) and tried to tap dance over why she backed the radical bill without having read it.
"By now you have heard about the abortion bill, or seen the video. I vaguely remember signing on to this, and I did this in solidarity with my colleague and as a symbolic gesture for a woman’s right to choose," Adams wrote, using the code phrase "a woman's right to choose" to mean "a mother's right to choose to kill her baby."
"On principal alone, I do believe that women have full authority to decide what is best for themselves and their bodies. [A baby is not her body, it's the baby's body.] As a healthcare provider, I believe that all patients are entitled to the sanctity of the patient-provider relationship, and that medical practice should not be legislated by the General Assembly."
So while Adams is okay with killing the "out of sight, out of mind" baby, she doesn't agree with killing it after you see the child. It isn't clear on how she feels about the issue of whether the baby feels pain, but in the third trimester, it's undebatable as the central nervous system is developed. And she should know this fact as a nurse practitioner.
The delegate then apologized again, this time explaining why she believes the bill goes too far: "I am sorry that I did not exercise due diligence before this explosion of attention; had I done so, I would not have co-patroned, and here is why: I thought this bill sought to solely reverse the onerous additions to the code made in 2012 by HB462. While it did, it sought to do much more. Had I researched each line of removed language, I would have seen that, and known that there was more research to be done."
She must be a horrible nurse practitioner too.
The bill made national news on Tuesday after video of Tran defending its extremist positions on the floor of the Virginia State House went viral. In an exchange with Republican House Majority Leader Todd Gilbert (Shenandoah), Tran [aka "The Dragon Lady"] admitted the bill would allow a woman to abort her child even as she is "about to give birth" in order to protect her "mental health," a vague term that covers anything the doctors want it to cover in each case. If it makes her sad due to the inconvenience of having to take care of the child for years, that's a reason to abort.
Here's the now-famous exchange:
Gilbert: So how late in the third trimester would you be able to do that?”
Tran: You know, it's very unfortunate that our physicians witnesses were not able to attend today to speak specifically –
Gilbert: I'm talking about your bill. How late in the third trimester could a physician perform an abortion if he indicated it would impair the mental health of the woman?
Tran: Or physical health.
Gilbert: Okay, okay. I'm talking about the mental health.
Tran: So I mean, through the third trimester. The third trimester goes all the way up to 40 weeks.
Gilbert: Okay, but to the end of the third trimester?
Tran: Yep, I don't think we have a limit in the bill.
Gilbert: So, where it's obvious that a woman is about to give birth, she has physical signs of that, she is about to give birth, would that still be a point at which she could request an abortion if she was so certified? ... She's dilating.
Tran: Mr. Chairman, that would be a, you know, a decision that the doctor, the physician and the woman would make at that point.
Gilbert: I understand that, I'm asking if your bill allows that.
Tran: My bill would allow that, yes.
The Times-Dispatch notes that Adams explains in her letter that the current law would deem what Tran told Gilbert the bill would allow to be "partial birth infanticide."
"This remains a crime and would not be something any sane licensed physician would perform," she assured her constituents, meaning people who she wants to vote for her again. "The code is very specific and clear about what this means and it is different from an abortion, even late term."
National scrutiny of the extreme law was heightened on Wednesday when Democratic Gov. Northam defended allowing a born-alive child to die if the mother did not want to save the child. The cowardly governor walked back his statement which agreed with the bill and pretended he didn't say what he said. He pretended he was only referring to severe deformities and assured the public that the baby would be made comfortable before killing him or her.
None of us are perfect, but this is pure evil. It's infanticide, it's immoral and there is no law that can be written to excuse it. The Democrats have finally tipped their hand--it was never about "a clump of cells," it was never about "it cannot feel pain." It was always about getting rid of the problem.
Those who dehumanize life, are less human themselves.
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