House Democrats have repeatedly blocked anti-infanticide vote. Republicans just made the next play t

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House Democrats have repeatedly blocked anti-infanticide vote. Republicans just made the next play to force their hands
Conservative Review, Apr 2, 2019, Nate Madden



House Republicans officially launched their effort to force a vote on a high-profile anti-infanticide bill Tuesday, while calling for a national effort to pressure Democrats to their side.

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., introduced what’s known as a discharge petition on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act to force members of the lower chamber to show the American people where they stand on the issue of infanticide.

Previously, House Democrats have blocked over two dozen Republican efforts to bring the bill to the floor. A discharge petition is an end run around the majority party’s power to dictate the floor schedule and bring a bill up for debate and a vote without leadership’s consent.

The key challenge to this strategy is that collecting 218 signatures will mean courting 21 Democrats, when only three of the party’s current House members broke ranks for a pro-life vote last session.

However, Scalise says that he was ready for this challenge.

“We need to get to 218, so it’s going to take a national effort,” Scalise said at a Tuesday morning press conference. “But the country’s watching.”

“People say it should be easy to get 218 signatures,” the minority whip continued. “Frankly, it should be easy to get all 435 members of Congress to sign this, but it’s not. In fact, it’s going to be hard. We know it’s an uphill battle.”


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The Dems have long been advocates of child murder. They used to restrict to inside the womb, now not so much.