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While much of the public outrage about this extreme bill has revolved around the removal of protected legal status for an unborn child killed as a result of an attack on her mother, it is also important to remember the MANY other ways this bill expands abortion - if passed, this bill will:
 

• Enable late-term, post-viability abortions due to inadequate definitions of "viability / health / necessary;"
• Create a broad "non-interference" statutory framework that would prevent meaningful state regulation of abortionists, and which...
• Protect 2nd and 3rd trimester abortion methods such as partial birth abortions and dismemberment abortions of pain-capable unborn babies;
• Endanger young girls by eroding parental consent laws, allowing consent by a grandparent or sibling;
• Remove the penalty for experimentation on human fetuses.

Beyond these and other serious, particular problems, there is the startling reality that -- for the first time in history -- Rhode Island law would create and recognize a "right" to take the life of an innocent human being through abortion even though our state Constitution explicitly disavows such a "right."

Under present law, thousands of abortions are performed each year in Rhode Island. Sadly, this deplorable situation would not automatically change even if Roe v Wade were to be altered or overturned. It is cynical for abortion advocates to use fear, uncertainty, and doubt to push a New York / Virginia style abortion expansion bill in Rhode Island, making our state a haven for late term abortions.

Thank you for doing everything you can to oppose this deceptive, barbaric, and extreme abortion agenda.

Sincerely,
Carol A. Owens
Director, Office of Life and Family Ministry
Learn more: https://www.dioceseofprovidence.org/life-amp-family-respect-life 
401.421.7833, ext.218
cowens@dioceseofprovidence.org