Posted on 02/02/2015 2:39:04 PM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Renee Ellmers Calls Pro-Life Groups “Abhorrent and Childish” After She Flip-Flops on 20-Week Abortion Ban
Congresswoman Reneee Ellmers made herself into a thorn in the side of the pro-life movement when she flip-flopped on her support for a major pro-life bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Now, she’s angering pro-life advocates even further.
Ellmers was the subject of considerable angst from millions of pro-life people after her backtracking on the bill led to a handful of other lawmakers pulling their support over the bill and forcing House Republican leaders to have to delay a vote on the pro-life legislation. After the March for Life, pro-life leaders and activists protested outside Ellmers’ office and there has been strong talk about running a pro-life candidate in her next primary election as a result of her fli-flop.
Now, Ellmers has written an editorial calling pro-life groups “abhorrent and childist” that is sure to alienate her from the pro-life community even further.
“Recently, a bill was scheduled to reach the House floor called the Pain Capable bill, which would – and rightfully so– ban all abortions after a 20-week gestation period. Research has shown a baby can feel pain in the womb from the 20th week until live birth. As any member of Congress should do when apprehensive with language in a bill, my colleagues and I took our concerns to leadership, and we held a discussion within the family of our Republican Conference,” Ellmers writes. “I remain disappointed that the concern for the language of mandatory reporting of rape to law enforcement held by House Republican women and many men were not addressed before our leadership made the decision to pull the bill from the House floor in the eleventh hour.”
“Additionally, I am appalled by the abhorrent and childish behaviors from some of the leaders of the outside groups,” she added.
Though Ellmers criticizes House Republican leaders over the language of the bill, the measure has the exact same language Ellmers voted for previously.
The leading pro-life group behind the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, the ban on abortions after 20 weeks, is calling on pro-life voters to hold accountable the “pro-life” Republican lawmakers who sabotaged a vote on the bill.
Carol Tobias, the president of the National Right to Life Committee, is calling on pro-life advocates to hold them accountable.
In an email to supporters that LifeNews.com received titled “Elected Officials Who Betray Unborn Babies Have to Go,” Tobias said, “Last week, a small handful of congresswomen and men did something absolutely unconscionable. These lawmakers claim to be “pro-life,” and they were elected to Congress in part because they promised their constituents they would support laws to save the lives of unborn babies.”
“But despite their solemn promises to their pro-life constituents and more important, to the unborn, they ganged up last week to sidetrack for now the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. This humane bill would ban abortions when an unborn baby is developed enough feel terrible pain during an abortion – and if you can’t vote for such a humanitarian no-brainer of a law to protect the unborn, you can’t be trusted to vote for any pro-life legislation,” Tobias added.
Jill Stanek, a pro-life nurse and writer, was one of the pro-life activists leading the protest against Ellmers.
“Having personally held a twenty-week old abortion survivor for forty-five minutes until he died. I can personally attest to the fact that these babies feel excruciating pain as they die,” she told LifeNews.com. “Congresswoman Ellmers attempt to block a bill to protect these babies is reprehensible. I will be protesting at her office today in memory of the baby I held.”
Marjorie Dannenfelser, President of Susan B. Anthony List is also disappointed by the actions of those handful of lawmakers who sabotaged the vote.
“While we are disappointed that the House will not be voting on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act today, we are pleased that the House is moving forward to stop taxpayer funding of abortion,” she said. “We support Majority Leader McCarthy’s call for a prompt vote on Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act this Congress and we will be working with the House Republican leadership to ensure the maximum number of votes. We will also be working with the bill’s sponsor Senator Lindsey Graham to continue advancing this measure in the U.S. Senate. Both the House Leadership and Senator Graham have assured us they are not backing down.”
This woman needs to be primaried next year. She has no respect for her constituents.
I’ve said this before, but when a liberal becomes a conservative, s/he experiences a conversion; when a conservative becomes a liberal, s/he “evolves.”
If I know that human life is sacred, I will never change my mind on abortion. Ms. Ellmers is going to be primaried, and rightly so.
Flip-flopping politician liars are abhorrent and childish.
Someone ought to remind her that people really were actually covered in hot tar and feathered. And then strapped to traincars and “run out on rails”.
Sounds like she was all for it until she realized it might actually succeed.
I call you appalling and child murdering, miss Elmers!
Indeed. Get her out
I’m way past tired of phonies and ingrates . . . of all stripes
Firing this vile wench can’t happen too soon.
Two years and she’s out.
It’s not childish, it’s just politics.
Republican people in NC don’t make good primary choice; since Senator Helms retired, the state makes repeatedly bad choices.
EXCLUSIVE: DC Sources: Rep. Kevin McCarthy & Rep. Renee Ellmers Are Having An Affair
I am predicting only one term.
If ever anyone has gone over to the dark side, it’s Ms Ellmers
“She learned this from her new boyfriend...”
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Not a “new” boyfriend...he’s been dipping the wick for a long time now.
“I am predicting only one term.”
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She’s in her THIRD term (1st elected in 2010 - I donated to the witch’s campaign) but hopefully this will be her final term. The “conservative” veil started to be lifted from her in her second term (she was betraying herself as being owned by the Chamber of Commerce Amnesty lobby) but too late to organize an effective primary challenge. That will change in 2016 when I expect a solid and successful primary challenge to be mounted.
Wow, guess she doesn’t like her job.Hopefully the good people of north Carolina will throw this waste of a white female out of office come reelection time.
“She’s in her THIRD term (1st elected in 2010 - I donated to the witch’s campaign) but hopefully this will be her final term.”
Same here. I was taken in on her first run since she pretended to be a Tea Partier and ran against a Dim. By the end of her first term, I knew she was a fraud and did not contribute to her second run. By the end of her second term, I knew she was an advanced Boehner butt kisser, and sent money to Frank Roche in the primary. Roche managed to get 41.3% of the vote with virtually no money, while Ellmers had a comparatively large war chest. I think by now, the voters in her district are likely on to her and if Roche or some other conservative can get decent funding in 2016 can send this Boehner flack packing.
I should have clarified: the last term even if she is in a safe district.
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