Senate sets up vote for 20-week abortion ban

[Right_in_Virginia]

Senate sets up vote for 20-week abortion ban
Washington Examiner, Jan 24, 2018, Robert King

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell moved on Wednesday to start debate on a Senate bill to pass the Pain-Capable Childhood Protection Act, which would ban abortions after 20 weeks. The House passed its own version last year.

After debate on the bill is completed, the Senate will take a vote, likely some time next week. However, it will require 60 votes to stop a Democratic filibuster.

The last time the Senate took up a 20-week abortion ban was in 2015, when three Democratic senators joined Republicans to approve it. However, the motion still failed by a 54-42 vote.

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The decision by McConnell comes less than a week after the March for Life, a major gathering on the Mall in Washington, D.C., of anti-abortion activists. Five Republican senators wrote to the majority leader last week asking him to bring the bill up for a vote.


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[jmyrlefuller]

 

The GOP does this every time. I may be alone here but I for one would rather not see Congress waste time legislating on a bill solely designed to provoke lawsuits they will likely lose.

How about focusing on passing a permanent budget instead of going back down this rabbit holy AGAIN???

[Frank Cannon]

The GOP does this every time. I may be alone here but I for one would rather not see Congress waste time legislating on a bill solely designed to provoke lawsuits they will likely lose.

How about focusing on passing a permanent budget instead of going back down this rabbit holy AGAIN???

Exactly. Leave this to the states.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

The GOP does this every time. I may be alone here but I for one would rather not see Congress waste time legislating on a bill solely designed to provoke lawsuits they will likely lose.

How about focusing on passing a permanent budget instead of going back down this rabbit holy AGAIN???

Next week the GOP will propose a flag burning ban.

[driftdiver]

1.  We can do more than one thing at a time.
2.  Forcing the radical left to spend time and resources fighting for something other then pushing their agenda is a good thing.