"Pro-lifers are asking themselves why they bothered when the GOP appears intent on sticking them with a gratuitous anti-life law that would expose peaceful anti-abortion protestors to financial ruin," Connor continued.
Law-abiding protestors can't be sued into financial ruin.
The provision was stupid. It was inserted as a poison pill to kill the bill. The bill was killed. Then it was fixed.
This guy just wants to scream and make a scene. Protesting is probably his whole life.
Republican leaders are jabbing a thumb in the eyes of pro-lifers whose votes were largely responsible for the GOP victory in the November 5, elections, an angry Ken .................
A false assumption to begin with IMHO.
Sharp partisan differences over abortion have doomed prospects that the lame-duck Congress will pass a bill making it harder for Americans to shed their debts.
In a marathon session until early Friday, House Republicans sent the Democratic-controlled Senate a stripped-down bankruptcy bill without a controversial abortion provision.
The Senate, still grappling with homeland security legislation and poised to leave for the year, is unlikely to even consider the bill.
In the House, Republicans revolted against language that would have have prohibited anti-abortion protesters from seeking shelter through bankruptcy laws to avoid paying court-imposed fines.
Senate Democrats had inserted language into the compromise that would ban abortion protesters from using bankruptcy to avoid paying court fines for blocking clinics if they knowingly violated the law.
The anti-abortion Republicans blocked the bill in July because of that provision. They did so again Thursday, saying the law would be used against even legal abortion protests.