Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Passed in US Senate

www.ProLifeCommittee.org ^ | March 13, 2003 | Ja73do35

[Ja73do35]

Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Passed in US Senate – US House urged to act quickly and send pro-life bill to President Bush for signature

WASHINGTON - March 13, 2003 -- The U.S. Senate today passed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, a bill to ban the grisly partial-birth abortion procedure nationwide. This pro-life bill passed by a wide margin of 63 to 33, and now goes to the U.S. House of Representatives, where it enjoys strong support. President George W. Bush supports a partial-birth abortion ban, and has pledged that “when Congress sends me a bill against partial-birth abortion, I will sign it into law.”

The Pro-Life Campaign Committee is urging the U.S. House of Representatives to take up this legislation immediately, and urges pro-life citizens nationwide to contact their Representatives to urge immediate passage. Pro-lifers can easily contact their representatives by visiting www.ProLifeAction.com. This website features an on-line petition in support of a partial-birth abortion ban, as well as tools to help pro-lifers write their elected officials, write letters to the editor, register to vote and much more.

In 1996 and 1997, Congress passed legislation to ban partial-birth abortion. This legislation was vetoed by President Clinton and pro-life advocates failed in their attempts to override this veto.

In July 2002, the U.S. House of Representatives a partial-birth abortion ban, 274-151. However, the bill was blocked in the U.S. Senate by then Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD). Senator Daschle, a close ally of the pro-abortion lobby, used his powers as Majority Leader to block a vote on the bill.

Passage of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act has been a top priority for the Pro-Life Campaign Committee and pro-life advocates nationwide. The Pro-Life Campaign Committee has used direct mail, phone banks, a grassroots petition and the Internet to educate pro-life citizens about partial-birth abortion and to encourage people to contact their Representatives and Senators in support of a ban. This grassroots effort, combined with all the efforts by other pro-life organizations and advocates nationwide, has made a tremendous difference.

The Pro-Life Campaign Committee is federal political action committee dedicated to saving unborn children from abortion. Its goal is to help move our nation toward a culture that values life, and to make unborn children welcome in life and protected by law. The Pro-Life Campaign Committed believes in expanding the pro-life movement by building bridges across faith backgrounds. Toward this end, a special goal of the Pro-Life Campaign Committee has been to reach out to the Jewish community and bring more Jewish leaders into the pro-life movement.

The Pro-Life Campaign Committee is located on the web at www.ProLifeCommittee.org.

[SamAdams76]

I believe this is a good thing that happened. Partial birth abortions should not happen.

[deport]

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=108&session=1&vote=00051

How each Senator voted..........

[Tiemieshooz]

Did I read that right? Daschle voted "Yea" on the ban? weird...

[mommadooo3]

Good news.

[Jean S]

Thanks deport, I've been looking for that.

[YankeeReb]

Sometimes with all the liberals running their mouths on the media, I think that there's no hope for the country, then I hear news like this and I see it as a sure sign that all is not lost. Even as little as 5 years ago, during the darkest days of the sink-meister a bill like this wouldn't stand a prayer. Now it's going through and the dark forces of liberalism are too focused on their current anti-American stance to rally against it. If GWB can accomplish this much in his presidency, he'll go down as one of the champions of human rights in this century.

[apeman81]

Not weird at all. He wants to run for the presidency. Damn few people hold this form of PBA to be a vote winner. Most who "defend" it do so only on the "weakening of Roe" argument, and don't like to answer anything resembling a tough question about.

[noutopia]

Deliver the head then suck the brains out thru a small pucture in the scull.Now that was sick.

[noutopia]

Sorry about the SP,I was mad.

[SMGFan]

So Collins & Snowe were the Republican noes. Now I have no respect for these two women.

[RLJVet]

It's the truth.

[noutopia]

I Know,I just didn't spell it right.I don't know how a doctor can do this to a baby.

[deport]

Don't forget Chafee......

[Batrachian]

I was watching CNN (don't ask me why) and they where discussing this story and the anchor kept referring to partial birth abortion as "a certain type of late-term abortion". They never once used the phrase "partial birth abortion".

Who wants to bet this law winds up in the Supreme Court?

[deport]

Did I read that right? Daschle voted "Yea" on the ban? weird...

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Political ambition makes for strange happenings.....

[goldstategop]

Exactly. I'm willing to wager the Supremes have had second thoughts about Stenhart so they'll probably want to take the opportunity to determine what type of PBA ban will pass constitutional muster.

[SMGFan]

Yeah, no respect for him either.

[noutopia]

Doctors or Lawyers that think this is OK,should be stripped of thier right to practice.

[yooper]

"In 1996 and 1997, Congress passed legislation to ban partial-birth abortion. This legislation was vetoed by President Clinton....... "

Can anyone calculate approximately how many babies were murdered as a result of the Sinkmaster's veto?