Posted on 06/23/2009 12:47:50 PM PDT by wagglebee
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 23, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Senate yesterday blocked a resolution praising the "crucial services" of abortionists and condemning violence against them in the wake of Kansas late-term abortionist George Tiller's murder last month.
The resolution, sponsored by Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), decried violence against "providers of health care services to women" and asserted, "there is a history of violence against providers of reproductive health care, as health care employees have suffered threats and hostility in order to provide crucial services to patients."
The resolution failed to gather adequate support after Shaheen refused requests by some of her colleagues to strike the language celebrating the abortion industry. Shaheen expressed frustration at the resolution's demise.
"I realize that the issue of reproductive choice is divisive and that there are many heartfelt feelings on both sides of the aisle," said Shaheen in a press release. "However, I was hopeful that, regardless of our differences of opinion on this sensitive issue, the Senate could come together and pass a resolution that rejects the use of violence against women's health care providers.
"It is a sad day when the elected leaders of the greatest Democracy on earth can't agree to protect those exercising their constitutional rights."
The U.S. House of Representatives earlier this month unanimously passed a similar resolution condemning the Tiller killing and other murders that took place in a house of worship, without mentioning Tiller's profession. Tiller was killed May 31 at Reformation Lutheran Church, where he was serving as an usher.
Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Institute, praised the Senate's rejection of Sheehan's resolution.
"What an encouragement to the pro-life community that while some Senators may vote in favor of abortion, they stand strongly against any effort to glorify it," said Perkins.
"Like us, they realize that just as violence cannot be tolerated, neither can any effort to exalt those who practice it against the unborn."
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Pro-life Leaders Face Death Threats, Require Protection from Abortion Rights Radicals
How George Tiller Drove his Own Employee to Join Operation Rescue
Infanticide IS NOT "reproductive choice"!
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Be interesting to see what happens when this unholy trio makes their case before the Almighty about this attempted 'resolution.'
Guess they never heard of the Commandment, "Thou Shalt Not Shed Innocent Blood"
Yay we beat it. Boo that the American people won’t get to see what these people really believe.
How about rejecting the use of violence against unborn children?
::::crickets::::
Maybe they should look at ultra sounds and then say how could anyone kill that baby inside that woman.
Only a murderer could is the answer.
Case in point.
A man kills a pregnant woman and around this country he has been charged for the murder of the woman and the baby so why is it not the same for a so called Doc who puts the Gov of KS on his donation list not charged with a murder too?
You understand Shaheen. Your idea was almost born but it had a partial birth abortion. It’s legal you know.
The resolution failed to gather adequate support after Shaheen refused requests by some of her colleagues to strike the language celebrating the abortion industry. Shaheen expressed frustration at the resolution's demise.
Thankfully, there are saner minds in the Senate - at least by comparison.
Like the right to keep and bear arms, Senator Sheehan?
They are “(un)righteously indignant” when a terrorist is sleep deprived, and yet celebrate the dismemberment of an infant.
How about Celebrating the Constitutional Rights of the Unborn Babies, little defenseless Human Beings! How does the Idiot BOXER defend Tiller the Baby Killer and support Petterson’s coviction of a Double Murder!!! Schucks, the baby boy was just a blob of protoplasm worth nothing, worth less than Obama’s brutally killed FLY!/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s!!!!
Miss Boxer, you are not worthy of any title including the one used in this sentence:-)
What about the violence to the unborn? They’re human, too.
First of all I would not call abortion “women’s healthcare” as there is nothing “healthy” about a practise where the patient(baby) always dies as in an abortion.
You mean republicans didn’t just bend over and take it as usual??
Why am I not surprised to see “Ma’am” Boxer’s name on this idiotic bill?
The One’s teflon may be weakening.
What about the violence done to the babies they murder?
It’s “women’s healthcare”, according to someone in the article.
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