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Obama threatens veto as fetal pain bill passes House
cna ^ | June 19, 2013 | Adelaide Mena

Posted on 06/19/2013 2:09:26 PM PDT by NYer

President Barack Obama gives his weekly address, May 5, 2012. Credit: White House.

Washington D.C., Jun 18, 2013 / 05:22 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Despite passing the U.S. House of Representatives, a bill to prohibit abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy faces an uncertain future as President Obama's administration has suggested that he will veto it.

“(S)cience is on our side,” Representative Marsha Blackburn, (R- Tenn.) told MSNBC in an interview.

Blackburn joined other pro-life representatives, including Michelle Bachmann (R- Minn.) and Virginia Foxx (R- N.C.) in defending the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would ban abortions 20 weeks into a pregnancy and later, based on science indicating that unborn children can feel pain by this point. Exceptions in cases of rape, incest or a risk to the mother’s life were included in the final House version of the legislation.

The House of Representatives approved the bill by a vote of 228-196 on June 18, following its passage by the House Judiciary Committee. The legislation will now advance to the Senate, where opponents have vowed to fight it.

The Obama Administration has said that should the legislation gain the approval of both the House and Senate, the president's “senior advisors would recommend that he veto this bill.”

A statement of administration policy criticized the bill, saying that it “would unacceptably restrict women's health and reproductive rights and is an assault on a woman's right to choose.”

The statement alleged that the legislation “is a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade and shows contempt for women's health and rights, the role doctors play in their patients' health care decisions, and the Constitution.”

It is unclear how the Supreme Court would react to the pro-life legislation were it to be challenged as a violation of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

Pro-life advocates pointed to polls showing that the majority of Americans support restricting late-term abortions.

“May we in humility confront this national sin and may we mourn what abortion reveals about the conscience of our nation,” said Rep. Foxx.

Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), who introduced the legislation, argued in a June 13 statement that “(k)nowingly subjecting our innocent unborn children to dismemberment in the womb, particularly when they have developed to the point that they can feel excruciating pain every terrible moment leading up to their undeserved deaths, belies everything America was called to be.”

“This is not who we are,” he said.

Pro-life advocates have attempted to gain support for the bill's cause, using the hashtag #theyfeelpain on Twitter.

Despite the pledged opposition from the Senate and White House, supporters are confident that the American people are becoming more aware of the reality of abortion.

Last year, a similar piece of legislation that would have applied only to the District of Columbia failed to pass the House of Representatives.

“The tide of the American conscience will only continue to shift toward life and away from dismembering unborn babies in the womb,” said Rep. Franks in a June 18 tweet.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 20weekabortionban; 20weekbill; abortion; obama; prolife
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To: Resolute Conservative

One week or 19 weeks is still murder, Congressmen.


21 posted on 06/19/2013 2:36:40 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek (")
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To: NYer

22 posted on 06/19/2013 2:38:46 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: NYer
Conservatives need to play the game and call Pro-Choice what is really is, War On Babies!

Obama's WAR ON BABIES knows no bounds!

23 posted on 06/19/2013 2:40:07 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Don Corleone
next..."The Ovens!!!"

You exaggerate. Next will be post-birth abortions are just fine.

24 posted on 06/19/2013 2:41:02 PM PDT by grania
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25 posted on 06/19/2013 2:41:57 PM PDT by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: mountn man
As EACH day goes by, I am coming more and more to the conclussion that this guy is demon possessed.

Technically, he is not possessed yet, but give him about two years.

26 posted on 06/19/2013 2:42:06 PM PDT by Slyfox (Without the Right to Life, all other rights are meaningless.)
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To: I want the USA back
Hw (Obama) is in bed with radical man-hating feminazis...

More than one of them?

27 posted on 06/19/2013 2:42:30 PM PDT by grania
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To: ConorMacNessa

He is verily the Spawn of Satan!


There can be no doubt about it. He’s pure evil.


28 posted on 06/19/2013 2:59:58 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it. Their minds have been stolen.)
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To: NYer
Um, what is the constitutional authority for a federal statute of this sort? I'm not talking about Roe v. Wade or anything regarding the alleged "constitutional right to an abortion." I'm talking about the authority of Congress to exercise conventional "police powers" in this fashion.
29 posted on 06/19/2013 3:00:29 PM PDT by DSH
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To: NYer

It’s really too bad that Ms Dunham did not avail herself of an abortion.


30 posted on 06/19/2013 3:06:05 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: NYer

MAKE HIME VETO IT!
MAKE DEMOCRATS EXPLAIN THEIR SUPPORT


31 posted on 06/19/2013 3:15:31 PM PDT by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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To: mountn man

I came to that conclusion five years ago.


32 posted on 06/19/2013 3:18:57 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DSH
Frankly, I'm not aware of any specific clause of the Constitution that would empower the Federal Government to enact such a law, but I guess my analysis would go along the lines that the Supreme Court having authorized abortion on the basis of the "right of privacy" that arises from the "penumbras' emanated by the various rights enumerated under the Bill of Rights and later amendments to the Constitution, then the Congress would have the power to limit or overturn that decision through legislation.



"Riamh nár dhruid ó sbairn lann!"

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

33 posted on 06/19/2013 3:30:53 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the A<font size=4><b>rchangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: NYer

MAKE HIM VETO IT!

That way there will be no mistake in the history books! Barack Obama was a baby killer, responsible for more deaths than the Nazi’s !


34 posted on 06/19/2013 3:40:07 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

THE WOMB SUPPOSE TO BE THE SAFEST PLACE ON EARTH.

THE WOMB SUPPOSE TO BE THE SAFEST PLACE ON EARTH.

THE WOMB SUPPOSE TO BE THE SAFEST PLACE ON EARTH.

THE WOMB SUPPOSE TO BE THE SAFEST PLACE ON EARTH.

Repeat it until the day you die.


35 posted on 06/19/2013 3:52:07 PM PDT by LiveFreeOrDie2001 (Elections have consequences - NOW LOOK what we have to deal with...)
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To: longfellowsmuse

Was thinking the same thing. The bills he vetoed before as a Senator when no one had ever heard of him.
Now he’s going to veto a bill that is to protect the helpless little ones from a tortuous death. Let all the world see what an evil monster he is.

(I pray that he’ll have a change of heart, that his conscience will wake up and he will sign the bill, just don’t have a lot of hope for that. With God, all things are possible, though and HE may surprise us!)


36 posted on 06/19/2013 3:59:43 PM PDT by boxlunch (Psalm 2)
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To: NYer

Yup, he wants to really help keep abortion rare. Perfect chance squandered. Why don’t any libs ever think about adoption? There are even anonymous hospital drop-offs if a mom wants to give her baby up.

Nope, gotta murder those babies for Molech.


37 posted on 06/19/2013 3:59:55 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: NYer

I hope enough people are watching closely enough to see him veto it and realize what it means. This servant of satan will do anything to salvage abortion. He voted to allow what Gossner was doing, allowing them to kill babies who were born alive after an abortion. If a baby is alive and breathing, you are committing murder. Watch him!


38 posted on 06/19/2013 4:06:37 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: NYer

“If I had a Father, he’d look like Kermit Gosnell.”


39 posted on 06/19/2013 4:09:20 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: fwdude
"When he first took office, I seriously doubted that his was the Anti-Christ. But now, I'm beginning to believe he is at least his executive assistant."


40 posted on 06/19/2013 4:30:11 PM PDT by varyouga
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