The vote was 246-168 in favor of the Bill.
The GOP controlled House did its job. They won by a large margin, even had some dems votre for it.
But because of the way it was introduced it required a 2/3rds majority to pass by enough to avoid a veto. But that’s okay, and here’s why.
The GOP wanted to get people on record. They knew even if they had gotten the vote in under normal tracking and won (which they would have) that it would not survive the Senate (which would never bring it up for a vote under Reid) or Obama’s veto in any case.
But this way, by fast tracking it, they got the Dem Nays on record for everyone to see and you can bet the GOP and PACs will use this in November in every race where any Democrat voting Nay on it is up for election.
It’s actually a shrewd and smart move, IMHO, because the vote will come back to haunt the Dems badly.
AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY
http://www.jeffhead.com/crossroads.htm
That's definitely the "upside," dear Jeff!
But there was something about this bill that worried me: It seemed to imply that abortion actually is a "right" — but a right that needs to be "regulated" by Congress.
To me, abortion is no "right" at all. The willful destruction of an innocent human life — for any reason — can never be anybody's "right."
Thank you so very much for your insights!
I find it amazing and surreal to be sitting here on a rainy Sunday evening in June, reading about our “representatives” and our country’s “leaders” voting on a bill that makes it okay to not only kill a baby, but kill “it” because you don’t like what or who “it” will become...hmmm- if “it “ has a sex, is it still just a “lump of tissue” or is it a person yet?....
I guess that is the ultimate in PRO-CHOICE now isn’t it?
What a hideous thing our government has become.