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.
We call that a constitutional amendment
Are these guys freekin retarded, or is there some political fuel being distilled here?
But notice, even in the minority, leftists and their party, the Democrats, are constantly pushing their agenda. They continually keep themselves in the public eye ( with the cooperation of Democrat American media). The Democrats are doing everything they can to put the Republicans on the spot, to embarrass them, to challenge them, to harass them and annoy them.
And what are the Republicans doing? Have you heard any proposals from them that advance a conservative anti-Obama agenda? What has anybody heard from the Republicans except their desire to cooperate with Obama and his Democrats on amnesty for illegals, about only minor ineffectual changes to ObamaCare, about "working with" the Democrats, about "reaching across the aisle", about fighting the Tea Party, etc.. The Republican Party is continually on the defensive, continually apologizing for its existence, continually apologizing in the media for its conservative members. It looks emasculated and weak.
This is all about creating a narrative for 2016 so Republicans can be portrayed as “anti-choice.”
(do I really need to say it?)
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Knowing Boehner he will let it go to a vote.
No doubt about it, the RATS don’t miss a trick.
They might as well pass a bill that does away with the tenth amendment.
I’ve little doubt they would if the RATS thought they could.
I guess bottom-feeding DemocRATS would consider mutilating and murdering America’s future as being some kind of freaky “history” thing.
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