Posted on 01/20/2015 4:44:51 PM PST by jazusamo
A group of Democrats are hoping to regain ground in their national fight for abortion rights with a bill that makes it illegal for states to “chip away at women’s reproductive rights.”
The group, led by Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), said they will introduce their “historic pro-choice bill” on Wednesday. The bill directly targets harsh laws recently passed in Texas and Wisconsin, which are now facing court challenges.
“The protections in this measure are more necessary now than ever before in our history because an avalanche of restrictive, reprehensible state laws is drastically reducing fundamental health care rights,” Blumenthal wrote in a statement.
Legislative attacks on abortion have spiked since the Republican wave of 2010, when the party made gains in state legislatures around the country.
Since then, more than 200 new abortion rules have passed through state legislatures.
Nationally, the number of abortion clinics has shrunk by nearly one-quarter over the last five years, with 60 facilities shuttered in 2014 alone, according to research by the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue.
The abortion debate is already taking center stage on Capitol Hill this week. The Republican-led bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks is slated for a vote Thursday – the same day that thousands of people will rally on the Mall for the March for Life.
The bill and the anti-abortion rally were both timed to take place on the anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case protecting abortion rights, Roe v. Wade.
The group of Democrats said their bill would ban laws imposing “unnecessary, extreme measures” that make it more difficult for doctors to perform abortions and more difficult for women to obtain them.
Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), who will co-sponsor the bill in the House, said state legislation have “diminished access to essential reproductive care” – including in her home state of Ohio.
“These burdensome and unlawful regulations do nothing to protect a woman’s health or safety,” she wrote in a statement.
The Democrats will hold a press conference on Wednesday announcing the legislation.
Actually the Democrats want all babies DOA.
No sarc intended.
“Nazis announce history death camp bill!”
Bump
Idiots.
You need an amendment to the Constitution to get something like this and it hasn’t prevented the states from infringing on the 2nd.
I am sure they will be asking for retroactive abortions next...
Oh, I get it. The right to suck your baby's brain into a sink, to murder it in cold blood before it ever draws a breath, is fundamental. But the right to keep and bear arms is not.
Y'all know this is going to come to blows, right? This cannot, cannot end well. This country must break up, just to survive.
The only abortions I approve of is if Democrats abort themselves..right now..I would even drive them to the Planned Parenthood office so it could be done
Next item on the agenda: a bill that makes it possible for states to “chip away at second amendment rights.”
Both of these rights, firmly in the Constitution. The latter being Amendment #2, and the former being... ummm... somewhere, I guess, between #1 and #2... Amendment 1.5, that's where abortion rights are located!
Why do democrats love murdering babies?
2016 Election Issue:
The Democrats War On Babies
Maybe they should first make it illegal for a candidate for Senate to falsely claim that he was a Vietnam veteran...
We call that a constitutional amendment. Are these guys freekin retarded, or is there some political fuel being distilled here?
Yep, and there’s no “maybe” about it, he’s a lying sack.
Yes.
Conversation with a lib:
If life doesn’t begin at conception, what is the event that does create life?
Uh uh uh.....
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