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.
Graham is doing what most of the GOP does, claiming to oppose abortion while doing absolutely nothing to prevent it.
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Yah. That’s the ticket. Many more guys will get charged with a rape, just so she get abort.
It’s like the family courts that target guys for child support. They tell the women to put down the as the father the guy they slept with that has the best job.
Graham never worried about children..
He’s no conservative, and never was.
Watch how consensual sex suddenly is reported as a “rape”, ruining the guy’s life.
That doesn’t make sense. If you’re raped why would you wait until late in the pregnancy to seek an abortion?
A wicked man.
Linda opens his mouth, but only to switch feet.
The Pro-Life movement are bunch of suckers. Lindsay Graham just played the Lucy Football prank on them. When McCain Mini-Me was worried about perhaps losing the GOP primary he started to sponsor Pro-Life legislation that had zero chance of passing in 2013/14. Of course, the Pro-Life groups fell for his McCainish head-fake to the right. They published press releases praising Graham. For example, National Right to Life endorsed Graham for the SC Senate race on May 10 before the June 10 primary:
http://www.nrlc.org/communications/releases/2014/release051514/
Now Graham is safely back in the Senate for another 6 years he just pulled the rug from under the Pro-Lifers. SUCKERS!
Just create a provision requiring abortionists to report all abortions due to rape. The women getting abortions won’t then be perceived as victims.
It’s political theater since every abortion involves a victim. One step at a time.
The bottom line is that there should NEVER be a "rape exception" because the child is innocent of the father's crime.
” A wicked man.”
One of many. Big money keeps him in power, just like McCain
Not to mention the drool on the chins of Huckabee and Santorum supporters, the Protestant/Catholic sides of the same coin.
He’s a strange cold-blooded little man. Unfortunately he is typical of what the GOP has become.
I posted about Graham’s False Flag operations back then. I hate to say this but I was exactly right. For some reason, the people who run these Pro-Life organizations who should know better fell for it hook, line, and sinker.
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