After months of legislative inactivity, (Moscow Mitch) McConnell,
the majority leader, has scheduled votes on two abortion-related bills
The Senate voted Monday to block consideration of a measure that
would punish any doctor who fails to provide medical care to
a child born alive after an attempted abortion.
February 25, 2019
All but three Democrats voted against a procedural motion
on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act,
denying it the necessary 60 votes to proceed.
The final vote count was 53 in favor and 44 opposed.
The bill would require a health-care practitioner to
“exercise the same degree of professional skill, care,
and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child”
as he or she would to “any other child born alive at the same
gestational age.” The bill includes criminal penalties, a right
of civil action for an affected mother and a mandatory
reporting requirement for other health providers.
Bill banning abortions after 20 weeks falls in Senate
A bill banning abortion at after 20 weeks failed
to get enough votes in the Senate this afternoon.
Sixty votes were needed for the bill.
Though abortion is a highly partisan issue in Washington,
two people from each party crossed party lines. Democrats
Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Joe Manchin of West Virginia
voted in favor of the bill, while Republicans Susan Collins of
Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voted against it.
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell likely brought the bill,
and a second anti-abortion bill
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...rat-debate-modi-bernie-sanders-mike-bloomberg
Trump loyalists made deceptive, stupid, and hideous remarks
"...infuriated abortion rights supporters, who note that infanticide
is already illegal and argue that Sasse’s bill is actually meant to
dissuade doctors from performing late-term abortions in the first place."
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) described the bill Monday as
“clearly anti-doctor, anti-woman and anti-family.”
“It has no place becoming law. Its proponents claim it would
make something illegal that is already illegal,” Murray said
on the Senate floor. She added that the legislation would
“do nothing except help Republicans advance their goal
of denying women their constitutionally protected rights.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...d3d4d8-3924-11e9-a06c-3ec8ed509d15_story.html
the majority leader, has scheduled votes on two abortion-related bills
The Senate voted Monday to block consideration of a measure that
would punish any doctor who fails to provide medical care to
a child born alive after an attempted abortion.
February 25, 2019
All but three Democrats voted against a procedural motion
on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act,
denying it the necessary 60 votes to proceed.
The final vote count was 53 in favor and 44 opposed.
The bill would require a health-care practitioner to
“exercise the same degree of professional skill, care,
and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child”
as he or she would to “any other child born alive at the same
gestational age.” The bill includes criminal penalties, a right
of civil action for an affected mother and a mandatory
reporting requirement for other health providers.
Bill banning abortions after 20 weeks falls in Senate
A bill banning abortion at after 20 weeks failed
to get enough votes in the Senate this afternoon.
Sixty votes were needed for the bill.
Though abortion is a highly partisan issue in Washington,
two people from each party crossed party lines. Democrats
Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Joe Manchin of West Virginia
voted in favor of the bill, while Republicans Susan Collins of
Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voted against it.
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell likely brought the bill,
and a second anti-abortion bill
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...rat-debate-modi-bernie-sanders-mike-bloomberg
Trump loyalists made deceptive, stupid, and hideous remarks
"...infuriated abortion rights supporters, who note that infanticide
is already illegal and argue that Sasse’s bill is actually meant to
dissuade doctors from performing late-term abortions in the first place."
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) described the bill Monday as
“clearly anti-doctor, anti-woman and anti-family.”
“It has no place becoming law. Its proponents claim it would
make something illegal that is already illegal,” Murray said
on the Senate floor. She added that the legislation would
“do nothing except help Republicans advance their goal
of denying women their constitutionally protected rights.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...d3d4d8-3924-11e9-a06c-3ec8ed509d15_story.html
