Senate passes Partial Birth abortion ban

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[netmilsmom]

This is a banner at the top of the Fox website. Thank God!

[nina0113]

I've got a bottle of champagne for when Bush signs it. How long does it take for resolution with the House version before it goes to him?

[chance33_98]

The left was so distracted by Iraq they didn't hardly even mention it :)

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

65-32. I want to see the roll call.

[Dems_R_Losers]

Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!

[CFW]

One small, baby step for mankind.

[PlanoMike]

Finally !!! Hallelujah ! Thank God !!!!

[hispanarepublicana]

FYI:

Yesterday's Votes on the Harkin Roe v. Wade "Sense of the Senate" amendment

Grouped By Vote Position

YEAs ---52
Akaka (D-HI) Baucus (D-MT) Bayh (D-IN) Bingaman (D-NM) Boxer (D-CA) Byrd (D-WV) Campbell (R-CO) Cantwell (D-WA) Carper (D-DE) Chafee (R-RI) Clinton (D-NY) Collins (R-ME) Conrad (D-ND) Corzine (D-NJ) Daschle (D-SD) Dayton (D-MN) Dodd (D-CT) Dorgan (D-ND)	Durbin (D-IL) Edwards (D-NC) Feingold (D-WI) Feinstein (D-CA) Graham (D-FL) Harkin (D-IA) Hollings (D-SC) Hutchison (R-TX) Inouye (D-HI) Jeffords (I-VT) Johnson (D-SD) Kennedy (D-MA) Kerry (D-MA) Kohl (D-WI) Landrieu (D-LA) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Leahy (D-VT) Levin (D-MI)	Lieberman (D-CT) Lincoln (D-AR) Mikulski (D-MD) Murkowski (R-AK) Murray (D-WA) Nelson (D-FL) Reed (D-RI) Rockefeller (D-WV) Sarbanes (D-MD) Schumer (D-NY) Snowe (R-ME) Specter (R-PA) Stabenow (D-MI) Stevens (R-AK) Warner (R-VA) Wyden (D-OR)

NAYs ---46
Alexander (R-TN) Allard (R-CO) Allen (R-VA) Bennett (R-UT) Bond (R-MO) Breaux (D-LA) Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Burns (R-MT) Chambliss (R-GA) Cochran (R-MS) Coleman (R-MN) Cornyn (R-TX) Craig (R-ID) Crapo (R-ID) DeWine (R-OH)	Dole (R-NC) Domenici (R-NM) Ensign (R-NV) Enzi (R-WY) Fitzgerald (R-IL) Frist (R-TN) Graham (R-SC) Grassley (R-IA) Gregg (R-NH) Hagel (R-NE) Hatch (R-UT) Inhofe (R-OK) Kyl (R-AZ) Lott (R-MS) Lugar (R-IN) McCain (R-AZ)	Miller (D-GA) Nelson (D-NE) Nickles (R-OK) Pryor (D-AR) Reid (D-NV) Roberts (R-KS) Santorum (R-PA) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Smith (R-OR) Sununu (R-NH) Talent (R-MO) Thomas (R-WY) Voinovich (R-OH)

Not Voting - 2
Biden (D-DE)	McConnell (R-KY)

[babylucas]

Yes, I'd like to see a list of the 32 Senators who voted for sucking the brains out of live babies.

[nina0113]

OK, Biden's out for health reasons, but where was McConnell?

[going hot]

But...But...Bubba II is just like Bubba I...no, wait,
Oh yeah, there is not a dime's worth of difference between the dems and repubs....no, wait...wait...
The repubs in the senate are hedonists, out for personal agendas..no..wait...wait...
I've got it!!, Bush won't sign this legislation because he is a member of the skull and crossbones society...yeah...yeah...that's the ticket!! That is why I will not vote in the next election!

< / sarcasm >

[hchutch]

What the heck does a "Sense of the Senate" resolution mean? IMHO, it sounds like a bunch of fluff and BS.

[A2J]

One small, baby step for mankind.

Or rather, for life.

[God luvs America]

I'm sure that terrorist supporter Susan Sarandon, who is concerned about the death of innocent Iraqi children in the impending war, will cry out that this is wrong that people should have the right to choose to kill American babies.

Chart how many of these anti-war/hollywood peace air-heads speak out against this decision!

[hispanarepublicana]

What the heck does a "Sense of the Senate" resolution mean?

"Sense of the Senate" sounds like an oxymoron to me.

[EternalVigilance]

I believe both McConnell and Biden are in the hospital...McConnell from heart bypass surgery, and Biden from gall bladder surgery.

[ArGee]

Thank you, LORD. Now on to the next step.

World magazine recently ran a description of the way late trimester abortions are performed if not via partial birth abortion. We have been able to focus on PBA because the baby is all but born when the procedure is performed. However, the D&E is much more brutal, and the infant is no less human. I would share some of the description with you but it makes me sick.

Now that the nation is ready to admit that it's killing a baby, we need to make it just as illegal when we can't yet see the baby's little body.

Shalom.

[pseudo-justin]

Here is the Associated Press Report:

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to ban a procedure that critics call partial birth abortion, a triumph for President Bush and the Republicans who took control of Congress this year.
The 65-32 vote sent the legislation to the GOP-controlled House, where passage is expected this spring.

The lopsided roll call was a marked contrast to three days of emotionally-charged debate in which supporters of the bill attacked the controversial procedure as barbaric and opponents said the measure was the opening salvo of a larger assault on abortion rights.

"We are well on our way" toward final passage, Sen. Rick Santorum said Wednesday night after the bill's supporters turned back a series of challenges on the Senate floor. Abortion opponents have been working for eight years to put the ban into law, and with a sympathetic president in the White House, are likely to succeed within a matter of weeks or months.

Abortion rights supporters have pledged a court challenge. "This bill is unconstitutional," argued Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., citing the lack of an exemption in cases where the health of the mother is in jeopardy.

The bill prohibits doctors from committing an "overt act" designed to kill a partially delivered fetus. Partial birth is described as a case in which the entire fetal head is outside the body of the mother, or, in the event of a breech delivery, if "any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother."

The legislation includes an exemption in cases in which the procedure is necessary to save the life of the mother.

The debate over the measure reflected hardened political lines on abortion, an issue that Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., said was dividing America as deeply as slavery did in the 19th century. The Supreme Court ruled in 1973 that women had the right to an abortion.

For much of the time since, abortion rights supporters have had enough support in Congress or the White House to fend off most attempts to restrict the rights the court identified in its 1973 ruling.

But beginning in 1995, abortion opponents have focused their efforts on the partial-birth procedure, putting their political foes on the defensive.

Congress twice before passed legislation to impose a ban, but former President Clinton vetoed both measures. A third attempt was sidetracked in 2000 when the Supreme Court invalidated a Nebraska state law that closely resembled the measure moving through the House and Senate. Yet a fourth attempt failed last year when Democrats, then in control of the Senate, refused to schedule a vote.

Abortion rights advocates scored one victory on Wednesday when the Senate voted 52-46 in support of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that gave women the right to end their pregnancies.

It was the first referendum on the 30-year-old ruling since the new Congress convened in January, and nine of the 11 newcomers to the Senate signaled opposition to the 1973 ruling.

That was a nonbinding vote, and on the legislative skirmishes that counted, abortion foes were in command.

On a vote of 60-38, the Senate first killed a proposal to ban a range of late-term abortions with exceptions for the health of the mother, exceptions that critics said rendered the prohibition all but meaningless.

Moments later, on a vote of 56-42, lawmakers rejected a call to have the bill rewritten in committee to address "constitutional issues raised by the Supreme Court" in a 2000 ruling.

Later in the day, in a final triumph for abortion foes, the Senate rejected a second attempt to substitute a ban on abortions after the fetus is viable outside the mother. That proposal included exceptions for the life and health of the mother, and failed, 60-35.

Durbin authored the proposal to ban a wider range of late-term abortions, but it drew opposition from abortion foes and abortion rights supporters as well.

It would have prohibited abortions after the point that the fetus could survive outside the mother, tempered by an exception in cases that threaten a mother's life or "risk grievous injury to her physical health."

"It doesn't ban abortion, which is what some people want. And it doesn't get the government out of the picture, which is what some other people want," he said. "Instead, it tries to draw a line, a good faith line of where we will allow abortions in late term pregnancies."

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[EternalVigilance]

Sense of the Senate resolutions are meaningless pap put out to placate some part of the electorate by Senators trying to cover their own political butts.