Posted on 02/05/2019 7:18:53 AM PST by Kaslin
Sen. Ben Sasse and his Republican colleagues did not receive the unanimous consent they were looking for on legislation that would’ve outlawed infanticide.
Democratic Washington Sen. Patty Murray blocked the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act,” presented by Sasse, that would’ve given infants who survived abortions medical care and protections under the law.
“Frankly, this shouldn’t be hard,” he said.
In this country, all of us are created equal. If that equality means anything, surely it means that infanticide is wrong. Frankly, this shouldn’t be hard. pic.twitter.com/9MyPVGpw7p— Senator Ben Sasse (@SenSasse) February 5, 2019
Murray argued the legislation is not necessary because there are already laws on the books that prohibit infanticide.
“This is a gross misinterpretation of the actual language of the bill that is being asked to be considered and, therefore, I object,” said Murray.
After her objection, Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa lamented that the Senate “can no longer unanimously condemn murder.”
“There is nothing great, there is nothing moral, or even humane about the discussion that we have before us today,” said Ernst. “Over the past week, we have witnessed the absolutely ugly truth about the far-reaching grasp of the abortion industry and its increasingly radicalized political agenda. Politicians have not only defended aborting a child while a woman is in labor, but have gone so far as to support the termination of a child after his or her birth. A child. A baby. Rationality, decency, and basic human compassion have fallen by the wayside.”
Sasse introduced the legislation after Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's remarks defending a late-term abortion bill in his state.
While the bill suffered a setback Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell suggested Monday that he may force a roll-call vote on the measure.
“I hope that none of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle invent any reasons to block this request later today,” McConnell said before the vote. “That would make quite a disturbing statement. If they do inexplicably block Senator Sasse’s effort, I can assure them that this will not be the last time we try to ensure that all newborns are afforded this fundamental legal protection.”
………..the Democratic Party, my long deceased and sainted mother’s party, and all my life one of the two MAJOR partie’s is inexorably becoming a MINOR party...………..simple as that because even a lot of Liberals don’t want to KILL babies.
If only it were a law prohibiting infants from owning guns to protect themselves from doctors and mothers, they’d be on board.
Today the democrats are devoid of any moral structure. They blocked a bill protecting babies born alive from infanticide.
Yes. Let's have on record the names of those who would make Hitler blush.
I believe it could go even, as the rats are also against killing new babies which that Governor from Virginia suggested, and has gotten a lot of heat for it from both sides.
Nancy Piglosi is Speaker of the House.
These democrat senator need to be unelected, including two from my state.
This needs to be repeatedly raised as an issue during the 2020 campaign.
Along with the Soviet Union, China, Pol Pot's Cambodia, Cuba, and every other Leftist-run prison state.
...and the RINOs are there imps.
The Democrat Thug Party
Make them own it.
Do they consider those with birth defects to be subhuman? Or have they stopped pretending that it isn’t human?
It certainly isn’t about “a woman’s body” once it has already been delivered alive.
And these same monsters will tell you it is wrong to execute a tried and convicted murderer.
>>The Democrat Party is a death cult.
Jerry Brown, Harvey Milk, and Jimmy Carter all defended Jim Jones.
As I’ve written over and over, the dems create the evil, the reps hem and haw then they generally vote with the dems. It’s just one push of immorality after another and it’s been going on with no push back for too long.
RE: infanticide as a first step to holocaust
Exactly right. And so is the “tax the rich” meme. Once people agree to confiscate wealth of the top 0.1%, the scale will just slide on down to tax everybody all they want, and take everything they’ve got.
That’s the “rapid change” AOC was talking about.
Just heard Haley Smith, the night after Trump’s speech stand behind infanticide.
Evil is hard to stop.
Just heard Haley Smith, the night after Trump’s speech stand behind infanticide.
Evil is hard to stop.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith
Paris Nov. 13. 1787.
"...what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon & pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. It is it’s natural manure."
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90)
QUOTATION: “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?”
“A Republic, if you can keep it.”
ATTRIBUTION: The response is attributed to BENJAMIN FRANKLIN—at the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberation.
Awful? Evil!
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