Posted on 01/28/2015 9:31:04 AM PST by wagglebee
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 28, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- After a revolt by Republican women indefinitely delayed the House vote on the Pain Capable Unborn Child Act, Sen. Lindsey Graham has promised that when he introduces his version in the Senate he will leave out a provision requiring women to report their rapes to the authorities.
“Nobody’s for rape,” Graham told Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill.
Republican congresswomen led by Renee Ellmers and Jackie Walorski spiked the vote, which was to take place on the same day as the 2015 March for Life, over a legal mandate that women who wish to abort a child conceived in rape first report that rape to law enforcement. Their defection, and the public relations nightmare of male Republican leadership fighting female Republicans over rape, effectively scuttled the bill's vote last Thursday.
The same provision was in the bill, which passed the House in June 2013, and which Graham introduced in the Senate that November.
Graham said he had little to do with that part of the law. “Somebody in the House put a provision in there: if you didn’t report the rape to law enforcement, then it’s not going to be considered a legitimate rape,” Graham said, calling the language “ridiculous.”
“We’re going to fix it. I really didn’t really pick that up, quite frankly,” he said.
Commentators defended the involvement of law enforcement on the grounds that it protects women from predatory abortionists.“This reporting requirement would keep late-term abortion doctors like Kermit Gosnell or Leroy Carhart from simply checking a box before going ahead with the procedure,” Mollie Hemingway wrote at The Federalist. “Besides, it’s one thing to seek an exception to abortion laws for victims of rape, and entirely another to think that exception must be extended until the baby exits the birth canal.”
In addition to counts of murder and infanticide, Kermit Gosnell was convicted of hundreds of counts of falsifying records to evade Pennsylvania's reporting requirements.
Sen. Graham, who has entertained thoughts of running for president in 2016, remained adamant that the reporting provision would be struck from his bill. “We’re not going to go down that road,” he said.
“I can’t wait for the debate. I’m looking forward to the debate. I want to hear how we’re a better country by aborting babies at 20 weeks,” Graham said.
“I’m looking forward to debate, and I’m going to take the … pro-choice centerpiece, the women’s protection health act. We’re going to bring it up. We’re going to vote on that, too,” he added.
The Women's Health Protection Act is championed by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and would nullify hundreds of restrictions on abortion at the state and local level.
The entire conniving congress is wicked.
Too bad he can’t listen to the opinions of the babies who would be aborted.
Why is it so hard for some “conservatives” to remember that these children have living souls, whether or not their mothers were raped?
Yep.
Am I the only on who thought this rape reporting provision was stupid to begin with? It would only Todd Akin the GOP in 2016, and we would get fart further with the cause by simply defunding Planned Parenthood. Neither bill becomes law anyway, so it is all theatrics.
Yep.
We don’t kill the person who commits the rape; why would we kill the person who is the result of the rape?
Just what GOP Voters have been clamoring for..
Easier ways to get an abortion
Way to go Lindsay-girl!
I bet with a name like Lindsay he got beat up a lot in high school.
There should have NEVER been a "rape exception" to begin with, but this nullifies everything. This is just another in an endless series of "laws" that Republicans will point to as proof that they are pro-life, when the reality is that they've just insured that abortion is available right up until the moment of birth as long as the woman says what she's told to say. Hell, Obama might even sign this law because even he realizes that it won't result in even one fewer abortions.
Exactly. Why kill a child for the crime of his/her father?
He’s padding his credentials for joining the Congressional Women’s Caucus.
” Yep and now he’s promising another “and then you can kill the baby” law that would make it nearly impossible to distinguish actual rape from an excuse for an abortion.”
Yep, very transparent.
” There should have NEVER been a “rape exception” to begin with, “
In the PRIMARY stages of Political Correctness.
We are now entering into the TERTIARY stage.
How does it take a rape victim over 20 weeks to come to a decision? Procrastination?
This sodomite is double minded.. and you know what that means
Dear Dumbazz Graham
They give you drugs in the ER as part of the rape protocol to eliminate the chance of pregnancy.
Now, now, just because Lindsey is nearly sixty years old, has never been married, is not known to have ever even dated any woman and speaks with a lisp doesn't give us an excuse to jump to conclusions!
Thats true ...sorry
I’ve adopted three children. I like to ask my liberal relatives, who know and love my children, if it would be acceptable to kill my children based on what their birthparents have done in the past.
The right to life belongs to the child.
Yup! And then to have a late term abortion.
How does it take a rape victim over 20 weeks to come to a decision? Procrastination?
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They’re not rape victims , real rape victims report the crime and visit a hospital where evidence is collected and in most hospitals they are offered a “morning after” pill , if not they can buy one the next day themselves for about $20..
I hate to say it but Whoopie Goldberg is/was right ,, there are two classes of rape ... real rape and the pretend kind like we see on college campuses where the girl decides after the fact that she didn’t want to sleep with the guy she brought home.
Women have an almost inexhaustible ability to lie to themselves and convince themselves those lies are true.
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