This bill will get the same treament as SB 1070 in AZ with a court fight, but in the short term it reacts to Gosnell’s horrors and makes the Republicans look good.
Its one of those emotional wedge issues the Republicans can use to keep Pro-Life voters with the GOP-E candidates in 2014.
20 week limit legislation didn’t pass the House in Washington for nothing.
But in the end the federal courts will gut it just like SB 1070 on immmigration did in Arizona.
Remember that GOP-E Arizona Governor Jan Brewer ran with Bill 1070 to re-election last time. She used it as an emotional wedge.
Now Brewer endorsed the amnesty legislation that passed the Senate claiming security issues are being addressed.
Where will be GOP be on abortion after this bill passes, they all get credit for passing it, get re-elected and the courts gut the legislation?????
Twelve other states have already passed the 20-week rule. Nebraska's was the first...and it has withstood SCOTUS muster.
This makes after 20 weeks illegal, with ALL of the typical exceptions including rape, incest, harm to mother or fetal abnormality. Hell, this is NOT an unprecedented, extreme position; this is the law in twelve other states - ALREADY.
Plain and simple, the Dems want to be able to kill that baby right up until the last toe-nail passes the vaginal entry - PERIOD! ANY restriction from being able to kill that baby is considered a “War on Women!” and the media plays it up and sells it to the public as if this is the truth. It is simply BS!
If anything, this bill is more FOR the health of women than ANY abortion title implies. It forces Doctors to be able to admit patients to a hospital, it makes a hospital be available within a certain distance (in case of emergency), it makes abortion clinics meet medical-procedure-level standards (because abortion IS a medical procedure) oh, and it means a woman must decide to kill her baby within FIVE months of getting pregnant - OH, THE EFFING HORROR!
Even the Dems have stated that less than 2% of ALL abortions done in Texas are done AFTER 20 weeks, so then WHY would you not want to limit this procedure? These people are NOT “pro-choice” they are all about KILLING, KILLING, KILLING babies!