John R. Houk
© February 26, 2019
Yesterday (2/25/19) 53 Senators voted in favor of
Born-Alive
Abortion Survivors Protection Act (S.311) and 44 Senators essentially VOTED AGAINST saving the lives of
botched abortion live-birth babies. And three Senators didn’t vote.
Killing babies
before they are born is bad enough, but 44 freaking Dem Senators voted to
perpetrate the death of a baby born alive when the child’s already egregious
abortion failed.
WHY?
Senator
Baby-Killer-in-chief Schumer felt protecting human threatened the Baby-Killer
industry and by-Satan the Dems are going to protect abortionists at any cost to
a human life that escaped the torture of a murderous abortion and lived.
If you live in a
State with a Senator Baby-killer coming up for election in 2020, YOU need to
decide you desire to align with live-birth baby-killing infanticide or to protect
the basic human life from murder. HERE IS A LIST
OF SENATOR BABY-KILLERS enabling YOU the voter to choose with
protecting the life of new birthed baby or to MURDER the live birthed baby on
election day 2020:
Three Senators did not vote and they ALL are Republicans. If YOU live in this Senator’s State, YOU need
to phone or write to ask WHY. If the reason is lame, DO NOT VOTE FOR THAT SENATOR:
Something to dwell on with your voting decision in 2020: The
SIXTH COMMANDMENT in the Amplified
Version clarity on Baby-Killing:
13 “You
shall not commit murder (unjustified, deliberate homicide). -- Exodus 20:
13 (AMP)
It’s time to terminate (or abort) the Senate 60-vote threshold
to change laws and end filibusters!
JRH 2/26/19
Your generosity is always appreciated:
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Democrats block bill
to ensure medical care for abortion survivors
February 25, 2019
06:12 PM -- Updated Feb 25, 2019,
09:14 PM
Senate Democrats on Monday defeated a GOP attempt to advance
legislation that would clarify that babies who survive attempted abortions must
receive medical care.
Republicans and anti-abortion advocates pushed for the bill,
the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, to receive a vote so that
they could put individual senators on the spot regarding the issue of
third-trimester abortion. GOP senators have been aiming to pressure Democrats
to state whether they believe any limits should be placed on abortion after
controversial comments appearing to indicate otherwise from Democratic Virginia
Gov. Ralph Northam.
The legislation fell short of the 60 votes it needed to
advance in a procedural maneuver, 53 to 44. Democrats Bob Casey of
Pennsylvania, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, and Doug Jones of Alabama joined
all Republicans present in voting in favor.
"I don't always follow the Democrats," Jones told
the Washington Examiner of his decision to support the bill.
"Having studied the bill I think it's the right vote."
Republicans and Democrats largely talked past each other
about the bill's purpose during floor debate ahead of the vote. Sen. Ben Sasse,
R-Neb., who introduced the bill, said it would stop doctors from letting a baby
die who survived a botched abortion. Democrats countered that the bill would
limit what doctors could do after the birth of a baby who had a grave medical
condition, and as a result either wouldn't live past birth or wouldn't survive
long.
President Trump weighed in on the bill's defeat several hours
later, calling it "one of the most shocking votes in the history of
Congress."
“Senate Democrats just voted against legislation to prevent
the killing of newborn infant children,” the president
tweeted Monday night. “The
Democrat position on abortion is now so extreme that they don’t mind executing
babies AFTER birth. This will be remembered as one of the most shocking votes
in the history of Congress. If there is one thing we should all agree on, it’s
protecting the lives of innocent babies.”
During his floor speech ahead of the vote, Senate Minority
Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said the bill would "target, intimidate and
shut down reproductive doctors across this country" and "impose
requirements on what types of care doctors must provide."
"It has always been illegal to harm a newborn
infant," he said. "This bill has nothing to do with that." He
called the legislation "Washington politics at its worst."
Sasse countered that the bill would keep doctors from
"actively allowing a baby to die" who had survived an abortion.
"What this bill does is try to secure basic rights,
equal rights, for babies that are born and survive outside the womb," he
said.
A group of House Republicans, led by House Minority Leader
Kevin McCarthy of California, walked on the Senate floor to support the vote.
Earlier this month, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., rejected a
motion to pass the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act via unanimous
consent, a procedure which a sole senator can stop. Murray objected because,
she said, the bill was unnecessary as the U.S. already has laws against
infanticide.
Northam and Virginia Del. Kathy Tran, also a Democrat, said
several weeks ago that they supported a state bill that appeared to allow
abortion at the time of birth. Tran later said she misspoke about when abortion
would be permitted and Northam’s office later released a statement saying that
the governor’s comments were mischaracterized and had been intended to address
cases in which babies wouldn’t survive birth because of deformity or another
health issue.
Sasse pounced on the comments during the floor debate
Monday, saying that Northam's comments amounted to a "discussion about
whether you throw that little baby in the trash can."
Virginia tabled the abortion bill, but other states,
including Illinois and Massachusetts, are considering loosening restrictions on
third-trimester abortion. Supporters of looser restrictions say they are meant
to address circumstances in which fetuses have severe medical conditions that
would cause them not to survive birth, or that would result in short, painful
lives.
The bill that failed Monday would have built on the 2002
Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which clarified that “every infant member of
the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development” is a
“person” for all federal law purposes. That law was intended to clarify that
babies were supposed to receive protections if they survived an abortion,
and Sasse’s bill further clarifies what level of care they are supposed to
receive, including being immediately transferred to a hospital.
If that protocol isn’t followed, then the doctor performing
the abortion would face criminal prosecution. Republicans have noted the case
of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, an abortion provider who was convicted of killing babies
after attempted abortions, as evidence that their bill is necessary. Democrats
and abortion rights groups counter that the doctor was prosecuted and
convicted, showing that the legal mechanism are already adequate.
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., pointed to the 2002 bill when
explaining his decision to vote against Monday's measure, and saying that the
previous legislation already clarifies that infanticide is illegal. Kaine, who
has said he is personally troubled by abortion but votes to uphold abortion
rights, said he didn't receive any statistics from Republicans about why the
bill was necessary and he said he would have wanted to see the bill go through
committee first.
"When you have hearings on bills you get the facts out
and you explore whether it's needed," Kaine said. "They didn't even
want to bring it to committee and that tells me I don't think they had a real
case to justify the bill."
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Senator Baby-Killers
John R. Houk
© February 26, 2019
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Democrats block bill to ensure medical care
for abortion survivors
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