{"id":40604,"date":"2013-09-15T13:56:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T17:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=40604"},"modified":"2013-09-16T11:03:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T15:03:30","slug":"pro-choice-dc-bureaucrats-decide-bodily-decisions-worth-interfering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-choice-dc-bureaucrats-decide-bodily-decisions-worth-interfering\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pro-choice&#8221; DC bureaucrats decide some bodily decisions are worth interfering with after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-40605\" style=\"margin-left: 15px;\" alt=\"Kodak Theatre\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Liberal-Bleeding-Heart-Tattoo-239x300.jpg\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Liberal-Bleeding-Heart-Tattoo-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Liberal-Bleeding-Heart-Tattoo.jpg 319w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/>If you want to know how insincere pro-aborts\u2019 stated principles are, just watch how quickly they go out the window once the subject changes.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.washingtonpost.com\/g\/page\/local\/health-department-draft-regulations\/440\/\">66 new pages of regulations<\/a> the District of Columbia is thinking about imposing on tattoo parlors, which include prohibitions on minors getting tattoos, limits on the kind of body piercings minors can get, mandatory informed consent for health risks, and a 24-hour waiting period.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that would be the same Washington, D.C. which is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prochoiceamerica.org\/government-and-you\/state-governments\/state-profiles\/district-of-columbia.html\">run by pro-aborts<\/a>, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abort73.com\/abortion_facts\/state_abortion_laws\/\">no parental consent or notification requirements<\/a> for minors seeking abortion, and has <a href=\"http:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/christinerousselle\/2013\/09\/09\/washington-dc-considers-24hour-waiting-period-on-tattoos-and-piercingsbut-abortions-are-available-on-demand-n1695224\">no waiting period<\/a> for abortion &#8211; all of which adds up to one of the country\u2019s highest abortion rates.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And just in case the inconsistency wasn\u2019t quite blatant enough, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/dc-politics\/24-hour-waiting-period-proposed-for-dc-tattoos-piercings\/2013\/09\/06\/924d8054-1727-11e3-be6e-dc6ae8a5b3a8_story.html\">here&#8217;s the rationale<\/a> Health Department spokeswoman Najma Roberts gave for the waiting period:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We\u2019re making sure when that decision is made that you\u2019re in the right frame of mind, and you don\u2019t wake up in the morning\u2026saying, \u201cOh my God, what happened?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sound familiar?<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I\u2019ve never cared for tattoos or body piercings. But it\u2019s clear that both practices are less complicated and less life-altering, and that they affect fewer human beings than abortion. Unlike abortion, which kills an innocent unborn baby whose father is helpless to protect him or her, these actually are procedures that affect the body only of whoever wants one.<\/p>\n<p>An earnest, consistently applied \u201cpro-choice\u201d ethic would hold not only that nobody but you has the right to choose what cosmetic alterations you make to your body, but that your personal judgment about whether they\u2019re right for you is unquestionable. And in the case of body art, we\u2019re also treading on self-expression territory, which liberal dogma usually awards extra sanctity points to.<\/p>\n<p>But here, lefty D.C. bureaucrats have decided that teenagers <em>don\u2019t<\/em> necessarily know what\u2019s best for them after all, and that even adults can\u2019t necessarily be trusted to obtain a tattoo when they ask for one. They believe that the threat of a stupid-looking image on your neck (or someplace more embarrassing) is more deserving of government intervention than the certainty that a child will die in abortion.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just the latest reminder that pro-abortion <a href=\"\/news\/abortion-liberalisms-most-illiberal-position\/\">does <em>not<\/em> mean pro-choice<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to know how insincere pro-aborts\u2019 stated principles are, just watch how quickly they go out the window once the subject changes. Consider the 66 new pages of regulations the District of Columbia is thinking about imposing on tattoo parlors, which include prohibitions on minors getting tattoos, limits on the kind of body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":40605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Pro-choice&quot; DC bureaucrats decide some bodily decisions are worth interfering with after all  - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-choice-dc-bureaucrats-decide-bodily-decisions-worth-interfering\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;Pro-choice&quot; DC bureaucrats decide some bodily decisions are worth interfering with after all  - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you want to know how insincere pro-aborts\u2019 stated principles are, just watch how quickly they go out the window once the subject changes. 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