Senate Passes Unborn Victims Bill, heads to President Bush

03.25.03

[Coleus]

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[Coleus]

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[boxerblues]

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., President Bush's opponent this fall, interrupted his campaign schedule to vote yes on the one-victim amendment. He voted no on final passage.

Kerry will be on TV soon saying I actually voted for it before I voted against it.

[Jim Robinson]

Boxer is deeply saddened.

[Jim Robinson]

Senator Boxer that is.

[boxerblues]

Not this boxer! Its good to see my guy Sen. Mike DeWine is getting off his duff.

[Coleus]

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[Socratic]

"Sen. Mike DeWine"

He probably knew it was going to pass, so he thought it was safe to actually look like a Republican, for once.

[deport]

The vote.......

Vote Summary

Question: On Passage of the Bill (H. R. 1997 )
Vote Number:	63	Vote Date:	March 25, 2004, 05:39 PM
Required For Majority:	1/2	Vote Result:	Bill Passed
Measure Number:	H.R. 1997 (Laci and Conner's Law )
Measure Title:	A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, and the Uniform Code of Military Justice to protect unborn children from assault and murder, and for other purposes.

Vote Counts:	YEAs	61
	NAYs	38
	Not Voting	1

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Grouped By Vote Position

YEAs ---61
Alexander (R-TN) Allard (R-CO) Allen (R-VA) Bennett (R-UT) Bingaman (D-NM) Bond (R-MO) Breaux (D-LA) Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Burns (R-MT) Campbell (R-CO) Carper (D-DE) Chambliss (R-GA) Cochran (R-MS) Coleman (R-MN) Collins (R-ME) Conrad (D-ND) Cornyn (R-TX) Craig (R-ID) Crapo (R-ID) Daschle (D-SD)	Dayton (D-MN) DeWine (R-OH) Dole (R-NC) Domenici (R-NM) Dorgan (D-ND) Ensign (R-NV) Enzi (R-WY) Fitzgerald (R-IL) Frist (R-TN) Graham (R-SC) Grassley (R-IA) Hagel (R-NE) Hatch (R-UT) Hutchison (R-TX) Inhofe (R-OK) Kyl (R-AZ) Landrieu (D-LA) Lott (R-MS) Lugar (R-IN) McCain (R-AZ) McConnell (R-KY)	Miller (D-GA) Murkowski (R-AK) Nelson (D-NE) Nickles (R-OK) Pryor (D-AR) Reid (D-NV) Roberts (R-KS) Rockefeller (D-WV) Santorum (R-PA) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Smith (R-OR) Specter (R-PA) Stevens (R-AK) Sununu (R-NH) Talent (R-MO) Thomas (R-WY) Voinovich (R-OH) Warner (R-VA)

NAYs ---38
Akaka (D-HI) Baucus (D-MT) Bayh (D-IN) Biden (D-DE) Boxer (D-CA) Byrd (D-WV) Cantwell (D-WA) Chafee (R-RI) Clinton (D-NY) Corzine (D-NJ) Dodd (D-CT) Durbin (D-IL) Edwards (D-NC)	Feingold (D-WI) Feinstein (D-CA) Graham (D-FL) Harkin (D-IA) Hollings (D-SC) Inouye (D-HI) Jeffords (I-VT) Johnson (D-SD) Kennedy (D-MA) Kerry (D-MA) Kohl (D-WI) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Leahy (D-VT)	Levin (D-MI) Lieberman (D-CT) Lincoln (D-AR) Mikulski (D-MD) Murray (D-WA) Nelson (D-FL) Reed (D-RI) Sarbanes (D-MD) Schumer (D-NY) Snowe (R-ME) Stabenow (D-MI) Wyden (D-OR)

Not Voting - 1

Gregg (R-NH)

[watchin]

It sickens me to see all the the pro-abortion fanatics who are only concerned that this might lead to fewer dead babies, and therefore fewer dollars. Pure evil.

[watchin]

WA needs new senators. Even no senators would be an improvement.

[boxerblues]

Voinovich voted yes as well! Any bill thats pisses off a liberal and saves a child is a good law.

[coloradan]

Shouldn't the bill be restricted to those fetuses "which had travelled in or substantially affect interstate commerce?"

Murder, as such, is a state crime, so they should need some hook to pull it into federal jurisdiction, and the interstate commerce clause seems to do the trick for just about everything else under the sun.

[Socratic]

"Voinovich voted yes as well!"

I see that. I guess he thinks it's OK to actually look Republican too (when it's safe.) I also see that D'asshole voted yes. SD politics must be making him pretty scared nowadays.

[fedupjohn]

thanks Coleus for the heads up I had trouble all day logging in, found the URL at Yahoo. This is great news.. hope it's the first step to challenge of Roe v. Wade Keep the prayers up

[boxerblues]

Not many surprises in the Nea column...

[boxerblues]

Dont get your hope up to high, some still have a hard time even calling it a baby.

"Feinstein said that by defining when life begins, the bill was "the first step in removing a woman's right to choice, particularly in the early months of a pregnancy before viability." She said it could also chill embryonic stem cell research. "

[savedbygrace]

The key obstacle was an amendment by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., that would have imposed the same tougher penalties outlined in the DeWine bill but classified any attack on a pregnant woman as a single-victim crime, avoiding the issue of fetal rights and the question of when a person attains personhood.

Sounds to me like that would run up against the Equal Protection Clause. Then again, I'm not a lawyer, so I just think about these things in a normal, non-contorted fashion.

[grellis]

No big surprise for me...looks like I'll be calling Sens. Stabenow and Levin in the morning.

[Socratic]

"before viability"

Remember the early days of the abortion debate when viability was the key term? After all, who would EVER be so heartless as to abort a child if it ever had the LEAST chance of surviving on its own! It sure didn't take long to sidestep that little moral qualm, did it?