As Miranda has noted several times in recent months, there is a deep rift within the anti-choice movement between the “incrementalists” who seek to ban abortion by gradually chipping away at access and legal protections and the “immediatists” who will only support efforts that seek to immediately and completely outlaw abortion.
Whereas the “incrementalists” are willing to accept some exceptions to anti-choice legislation for political reasons, “immediatists” decry such exceptions as a sell-out of the movement’s core mission to outlaw and criminalize abortion.
Not surprisingly, Colorado Republican state legislator Gordon Klingenschmitt falls into the latter category, as he questioned the anti-choice bona fides of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker for signing a law forcing women to get an ultrasound before seeking an abortion because the law still allows the women to get an abortion afterwards.
As Klingenschmitt explained on his most recent “Pray In Jesus Name” program, letting women still get an abortion after forcing them to undergo an ultrasound defeats the purpose of implementing anti-choice laws in the first place.
“Some of these ultrasound bills do inadvertently give permission to abort some children if an ultrasound is taken,” Klingenschmitt said. “In other words, first you have to jump through all these hoops and then you can kill the baby. Those seven words — ‘and then you can kill the baby’ — are inadvertently in a lot of these so-called pro-life laws.”
“My point is,” he continued, “make them get the ultrasound but then you still can’t kill the baby after you get the ultrasound.”
