Why Everyone Should Be Terrified By The GOP’s Abortion Bill Debacle

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Why Everyone Should Be Terrified By The GOP’s Abortion Bill Debacle
This level of incompetence and cowardice should alarm us all.

By Mollie Hemingway
January 22, 2015


Today marks the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court legalizing abortion on demand throughout pregnancy. The pro-life movement commemorates this day with marches, worship services and lobbying for bills to protect unborn children. Pro-lifers were promised by the Republican leaders they just helped elect and re-elect that the House of Representatives would pass a bill today banning most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, a point after which infants can feel pain and survive if born prematurely.

The legislation has been passed by the House in the previous Congress and is extremely popular in national polling. “One of the clearest messages from Gallup trends,” the polling firm reported, “is that Americans oppose late-term abortion.” A Washington Post/ABC survey showed that 64 percent of Americans favor limiting abortion at 20 weeks of pregnancy or earlier. When just women were asked, the figure jumped to 71 percent. Such measures are popular among independents and Americans of various income levels.

Quinnipiac even asked detailed questions about the bill last go-around:

As you may know, in 2013 the House of Representatives approved legislation that would ban virtually all abortions nationwide after 20 weeks of pregnancy, except in cases of rape and incest that are reported to authorities. Would you support or oppose such legislation?

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[Oceander]

Yeah.  We win the biggest majorities in both houses of Congress that we've had in a long, long time, and what do we do?  We go and start blowing all that political capital on stupid inanities that have never done anything other than alienate wide swaths of the American electorate.

This is NOT what the American people elected the GOP to do.  Why don't we just spare ourselves the grief and wasted money and just make Hilary president by proclamation in 2016, 'cause if we keep doing sh*t like this she will be president in 2016.

[sinkspur]

I don't have any problem with this bill, at all.  It was passed previously.

What I do have a problem with are these squishy women who sponsor and proclaim support for the bill right up to the last minute, then get cold feet over a non-existent threat.

The American public STILL supports outlawing abortion after 20 weeks,but Renee Elmers decides millenials (who are some of the most pro-life of any demographic) would hate her if she voted for the bill. So she helps scuttle the whole damned thing.

On the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, the Fetal Pain Bill was appropriate to consider and pass, even if it goes nowhere in the Senate.   Even Democrats support this bill.