Posted on 06/18/2013 5:03:07 PM PDT by EXCH54FE
Even though President Obama threatened to veto this bill hours before it passed the House of Representatives because he considers it to be “an assault on a woman’s right to choose” and “a direct challenge to Roe vs. Wade,” this is nonetheless still very good news for the pro-life community. Politico reports:
The House Tuesday passed a bill that would ban most abortions nationwide after 20 weeks. The most far-reaching abortion legislation in the House in a decade, it was passed 228-196 mostly along party lines.
The vote is largely symbolic: The bill will be dead on arrival in the Senate. And the White House has already threatened to veto the“fetal pain” legislation, which is based on the controversial assertion that a fetus can feel pain at that stage of development.
But Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), the bill’s sponsor, didn’t find that discouraging. He pointed to the last time Congress passed a bill of this scope, the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. That bill fell short and faced court battles before it finally became law.
“I think if you hearken back to partial-birth abortion … everybody said you know, it’s not constitutional, it can’t pass, it can’t go anywhere, and it took time to do that and it even had to succeed a presidential veto. But it eventually did,” Franks said.
Meanwhile, the Pro-Life Susan B. Anthony List released the following statement:
“Congress has taken an important first step toward making sure we stop abortionists like Kermit Gosnell and his horrific abortion clinic and procedures. The House listened to the overwhelming majority of Americans, men and women, who instinctively recoil at the dehumanizing and degrading practice of late-term abortion,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, President of the SBA List. “This pro-woman, pro-science, Constitutional bill deserves an immediate vote in the U.S. Senate. It’s simple: children capable of experiencing unimaginable pain from abortion must be protected across the country.
“The big abortion industry cannot defend late-term abortions. Americans are disturbed by the callous nature of this practice, the disgusting clinic conditions in Pennsylvania, Delaware and other states, the 330,000 abortions Planned Parenthood of America performs every year as it receives half a billion in taxpayer dollars, and the repeated harm women experience as a result of their exploitation. Women and the unborn deserve better than abortion, and making late-term abortions illegal is a simple step in that direction. Votes have consequences. Congress should take note we're pulling together our 2014 target list tonight.”
For what it’s worth, according to a recent Gallup poll, 80 percent of Americans believe third trimester abortions should be illegal.
Can you imagine where the 196 morons minds were to vote against this?
Why is it that bills passed by the house can be considered DOA in the senate, but there’s an expectation that senate bills always deserve a vote in the house?
I’ll take all the symbolism we can get until it’s possible to get it passed for real.
I’ll take all the symbolism we can get until it’s possible to get it passed for real.
It’s civil war. Already well under way.
Why is a woman’s “Right to Choose Life” also not a right or a baby’s right to LIVE not a right?
Remind everyone who is voting against a child who can feel pain. However many times it takes. And make an ad! The news media isn’t going to get the message out.
One way or the other in the end, the right will win. Wickedness may seem to temporarily prevail, but it will lose soon and forever. The Bible says, “Here is the patience and the faith of the saints” Rev 13:10.
Yep. We need to keep the House and take back the Senate if we want this to pass...
Reid must go.
The woman's right to her body ends at the beginning of the baby's body.
Why are d-rats so anxious to kill babies?
I just don’t understand.
He believes in killing babies born alive. Why...and what other weird positions does he hold dear?
Why does he hate babies born alive?
Is it that he just doesn't care (i.e. has no feelings). There are babies here...little creatures. Has he no feelings for these little humans?
Can liberals honestly say they do now care for babies born alive?
These are children, for Gods Sake. Do you liberals hate them so? Is your sensation of orgasm so great and powerful that you don't care about the children you produce?
Definitely worth pushing it even though Obamugabe, the grandson of authentic cannibals (see mau mau in kenya), prefers to give babies pain ~ lots of pain ~ horrible pain ~ indescribable pain.
But if I cause a murder, can I go free because I have a choice?
I don't either. People kill babies and want to forfeit their God-given freedom for totalitarian government. People are capable of great evil and great deception. But God's grace is greater. "Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound" Romans 5:20.
People, all of us, need the grace and redemption of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I think a good answer to “My body, my choice” is, “You’re body and your choice ends where your baby’s body begins.”
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