{"id":7239,"date":"2004-04-01T19:28:45","date_gmt":"2004-04-02T00:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/04\/01\/fetal-personhood-law-has-radical-implications-for-freedom-of-religion\/"},"modified":"2004-04-01T19:28:45","modified_gmt":"2004-04-02T00:28:45","slug":"fetal-personhood-law-has-radical-implications-for-freedom-of-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/04\/fetal-personhood-law-has-radical-implications-for-freedom-of-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetal Personhood Law Has Radical Implications for Freedom of Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">WASHINGTON, April 1 \/U.S. Newswire\/ &#8212; The following is a statement of Reverend Carlton W. Veazey, president of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act:<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">President Bush&#8217;s signing today of the so-called &#8220;Unborn Victims of Violence Act&#8221; has radical implications for freedom of religion and conscience in America. As of today, this nation has enacted into law a narrow religious belief about human personhood. This law explicitly states that a fertilized egg or fetus at any stage of development is a &#8220;child,&#8221; which is a religious belief held by some &#8211; but by no means all or even most &#8211; religions. With this law, the Religious Right has succeeded in laying the foundation for its overriding purpose of outlawing abortion rights and reinstating government control of women&#8217;s reproductive lives.<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/releases.usnewswire.com\/GetRelease.asp?id=173-04012004\" target=\"_blank\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">I wish these type of statements were April&#8217;s Fools jokes, but this Reverend is just a plain sick fool advancing the culture of death and selfishness. I wonder how he reads the story of the Visitation in the Gospel of Luke.  Does his translation say &#8220;the product of conception leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit (but this is in no way an endorsement of the personship of the pre-natal John the Baptist).<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\"> I guess I can now propose an infallible liberal eye test.  Show people a picture of a murdered pregnant woman and ask them how many victims they see.  If they reply &#8220;one&#8221;, their moral blindness confirms that they are indeed a liberal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Kudos to President George W. Bush for signing yet another pro-life law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, April 1 \/U.S. Newswire\/ &#8212; The following is a statement of Reverend Carlton W. Veazey, president of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice on the Unborn Victims of Violence&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}