Posted on 06/19/2013 2:09:26 PM PDT by NYer
.- Despite passing the U.S. House of Representatives, a bill to prohibit abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy faces an uncertain future as President Obama's administration has suggested that he will veto it.
“(S)cience is on our side,” Representative Marsha Blackburn, (R- Tenn.) told MSNBC in an interview.
Blackburn joined other pro-life representatives, including Michelle Bachmann (R- Minn.) and Virginia Foxx (R- N.C.) in defending the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would ban abortions 20 weeks into a pregnancy and later, based on science indicating that unborn children can feel pain by this point. Exceptions in cases of rape, incest or a risk to the mother’s life were included in the final House version of the legislation.
The House of Representatives approved the bill by a vote of 228-196 on June 18, following its passage by the House Judiciary Committee. The legislation will now advance to the Senate, where opponents have vowed to fight it.
The Obama Administration has said that should the legislation gain the approval of both the House and Senate, the president's “senior advisors would recommend that he veto this bill.”
A statement of administration policy criticized the bill, saying that it “would unacceptably restrict women's health and reproductive rights and is an assault on a woman's right to choose.”
The statement alleged that the legislation “is a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade and shows contempt for women's health and rights, the role doctors play in their patients' health care decisions, and the Constitution.”
It is unclear how the Supreme Court would react to the pro-life legislation were it to be challenged as a violation of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
Pro-life advocates pointed to polls showing that the majority of Americans support restricting late-term abortions.
“May we in humility confront this national sin and may we mourn what abortion reveals about the conscience of our nation,” said Rep. Foxx.
Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), who introduced the legislation, argued in a June 13 statement that “(k)nowingly subjecting our innocent unborn children to dismemberment in the womb, particularly when they have developed to the point that they can feel excruciating pain every terrible moment leading up to their undeserved deaths, belies everything America was called to be.”
“This is not who we are,” he said.
Pro-life advocates have attempted to gain support for the bill's cause, using the hashtag #theyfeelpain on Twitter.
Despite the pledged opposition from the Senate and White House, supporters are confident that the American people are becoming more aware of the reality of abortion.
Last year, a similar piece of legislation that would have applied only to the District of Columbia failed to pass the House of Representatives.
“The tide of the American conscience will only continue to shift toward life and away from dismembering unborn babies in the womb,” said Rep. Franks in a June 18 tweet.
One week or 19 weeks is still murder, Congressmen.
Obama's WAR ON BABIES knows no bounds!
You exaggerate. Next will be post-birth abortions are just fine.
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Technically, he is not possessed yet, but give him about two years.
More than one of them?
He is verily the Spawn of Satan!
There can be no doubt about it. He’s pure evil.
It’s really too bad that Ms Dunham did not avail herself of an abortion.
MAKE HIME VETO IT!
MAKE DEMOCRATS EXPLAIN THEIR SUPPORT
I came to that conclusion five years ago.
MAKE HIM VETO IT!
That way there will be no mistake in the history books! Barack Obama was a baby killer, responsible for more deaths than the Nazi’s !
THE WOMB SUPPOSE TO BE THE SAFEST PLACE ON EARTH.
THE WOMB SUPPOSE TO BE THE SAFEST PLACE ON EARTH.
THE WOMB SUPPOSE TO BE THE SAFEST PLACE ON EARTH.
THE WOMB SUPPOSE TO BE THE SAFEST PLACE ON EARTH.
Repeat it until the day you die.
Was thinking the same thing. The bills he vetoed before as a Senator when no one had ever heard of him.
Now he’s going to veto a bill that is to protect the helpless little ones from a tortuous death. Let all the world see what an evil monster he is.
(I pray that he’ll have a change of heart, that his conscience will wake up and he will sign the bill, just don’t have a lot of hope for that. With God, all things are possible, though and HE may surprise us!)
Yup, he wants to really help keep abortion rare. Perfect chance squandered. Why don’t any libs ever think about adoption? There are even anonymous hospital drop-offs if a mom wants to give her baby up.
Nope, gotta murder those babies for Molech.
I hope enough people are watching closely enough to see him veto it and realize what it means. This servant of satan will do anything to salvage abortion. He voted to allow what Gossner was doing, allowing them to kill babies who were born alive after an abortion. If a baby is alive and breathing, you are committing murder. Watch him!
“If I had a Father, he’d look like Kermit Gosnell.”
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