house committee advances nationwide abortion ban

[niyad]

(and the war on women continues apace)

House Committee Advances Nationwide Abortion Ban

Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee voted 20 to 12 along party lines to approve a bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks nationwide. The bill now goes before the full House of Representatives, and could be brought up for debate as early as next week.

The bill, called the Pain Capable Child Protection Act, is sponsored by Trent Franks (R-AZ), and originally applied only to the District of Columbia. However, Franks decided to expand the bill nationwide following the murder conviction of Kermit Gosnell, a rogue doctor who performed illegal abortions in Pennsylvania. The bill does not include exceptions for rape, incest, or fetal abnormality, but does include an exception to save the life of the woman. Franks has introduced the bill in previous sessions of Congress, but it was defeated.

During the committee debate, sponsor Franks echoed other conservative lawmakers in their understanding of rape. Franks successfully dissuaded fellow lawmakers from amending the bill to include an exception from rape by arguing that "the incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low." This shows striking similarity to Representative Todd Akin's remark last year, that "...from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."

http://www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?ID=14400

[sharp_stick]

1. Glad to see the House

is working as hard as ever to put this country back to work.

I suppose next week they'll vote for the 38th time to repeal the ACA.

Fucking assholes, they seem to be surprised that they are hated more than telemarketers and debt collectors. Can there be a more stupid bunch of people in a single room anywhere?

[niyad]

3. they are truly a scary, scary, clueless, woman-hating bunch.

[politicaljunkie41910]

10. The fight against abortion by the GOP has always been to force white women to have

babies every since the 70's when it became apparent that the white race would one day become a minority in these United States. White women have been the biggest benefactor's of affirmative action programs and white women took the bull by the horns and ran with it. With white women attending colleges at higher rates beginning in the 60s and entering the workforce in higher numbers, it was a natural progression that they delayed childbirth and the number of children they had to pursue careers. This is one of the main reasons that the birth rates are now higher for brown people. But it wouldn't be politically correct to say that. So they claim to be for the rights of the unborn while not giving a crap for these babies after they are born.

[niyad]

17. if you seriously think the gop fight against choice is all about forcing white women to have

babies, you need to pay a bit closer attention.

[politicaljunkie41910]

44. I do and I do. Thank you very much.

[niyad]

46. not enough, apparently, if you think that is the sole purpose of the gop attack on women.

[Mojorabbit]

26. It frightens me also

that All the hard won rights we have can so easily be taken away.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

34. Republicans are more interested in dinosaurs that roamed the Earth with humans

They need to start doing what they were elected for. I will fight tooth and nail to get rid of them!

[MillennialDem]

39. Don't forget they need to name a few more federal buildings after Ronald Reagan

[Myrina]

2. It's already been ruled on by SCOTUS ...

... they can pass all the bullshit-show-laws they want, but SCOTUS will have to weigh it against ROE V WADE and I hope to HELL Fat Tony is on vacation that day.

[niyad]

6. I am trying to think of the last scotus ruling that benefited women since roe.

[davidpdx]

16. The scary thing is SCOTUS could itself over turn ROE V Wade

Especially given the fact that the conservatives have the majority still. Obama has about 41 more months in office. If Ginsburg passes then he has to fill the seat with someone who is going to be reliably liberal. The other possibility is another seat doesn't open up (or both could occur with no one else leaving except Ginsburg). In that case we'd be up shit creek without a paddle unless we win in 2016.

[niyad]

18. yes, people forget that roe could be overturned by the pukes on the court.

it has always pissed me off that we were told we didn't need the ERA or any sort of legislation, because "the courts will protect you".

[davidpdx]

35. I still think we are at a very vulnerable stage and will continue to be unless

we are able to tip the court in our favor. A court with a similar make up and a Republican in 2017 would give them a shot at completely outlawing abortion.

[niyad]

36. you are correct--I have said for years that we are one vote away from "the handmaid's tale"

even before that happens, we have what all the states are up to.

[DetlefK]

4. The 20-week-number is made up. Are they incompetent or are they liars?

Funny how it's always the same question with republicans:
9/11 and Iraq -> incompetent or liars?
trickle-down-economics -> incompetent or liars?
"One-austerity-to-save-them-all" -> incompetent or liars?

[niyad]

5. they are incompetent, ignorant, liars and woman-haters.

[rock]

8. That is correct

They are so hypocritical that they can be all those (and more!) at the same time.

[historylovr]

7. K & R.

This thread will likely be buried beneath the latest security state outrages, but this should also be a huge outrage. We women are losing our personhood (sorry, that's the only term I can think of at the moment) every day. A law here, a law there, the constant bleating of 'rape doesn't cause pregnancy,' etc. When will it stop? Forget 1950s, they want us back in the 1350s. Thank you, niyad, for posting this.

[bamacrat]

9. Just if they cared this much about the already living children. n/t

[blkmusclmachine]

11. WAR ON WOMEN

[niyad]

12. do you think there is something funny about that term for the endless, daily attacks on women's

rights, reproductive autonomy, safety from sexual assault, etc., etc?

[niyad]

13. . . .

[duuser5822]

14. These idiots just don't quit, do they?

I'm sure they'll soon be proposing laws that punishes women who get abortion with death. Misogynistic pigs...

[Warren DeMontague]

15. Most Americans are pro-choice.

Between this and wetting themselves screaming "benghaziiii", we ought to spend the next 17 months reminding the American people how these shitwits controlling the House are doing NOTHING except wasting the voters' time and dime on this idiotic crap.

[niyad]

19. we do keep reminding them, but it doesn't seem to matter. I have been encountering a woman

lately who is STILL wearing a rmoney/ryan button, and, hearing her talk, she is totally clueless. their very determined blind and willful ignorance worries me.

[Warren DeMontague]

30. Maybe. The depressing reality, too, is that so many of these districts are drawn to be locked up

our odds of retaking the house in 2014 are difficult.

[niyad]

37. the likelihood of lamborn, for example, being ousted, is exceedingly small.

[enlightenment]

27. And most Americans are also knee-jerk reactionaries.

Just like Congress.

After 9/11, Congress passed, with an almost complete majority, draconian laws to "protect" us from the "terrorists" - without blinking or pausing to f'ing READ what they were making law. Pure knee-jerk that was praised by many, many people as swift and decisive action.

Bills like this rely on similar scare tactics; the reference to Gosnell is carefully crafted to whip up an emotional response.

[Warren DeMontague]

28. Bills like this don't stand a snowball's chance, that's why they do them.

In fact, if the GOP even controlled the Senate they probably wouldn't be pulling this crap, because then it might stand a chance of attracting attention as it moved through both bodies or even -gasp- passing.

[enlightenment]

29. True, but it's still freakin' annoying.

I'm sick of stupid people.

[Warren DeMontague]

31. No shit.

With you, there.

[niyad]

20. . . .

[Chan790]

21. Another pointless Republican bill.

It has no chance of being taken up in the Senate and if it did, it would fail by close to a 60-40 margin. Even if it somehow squeaked out of the Senate...it's DOA on Obama's desk. In the meanwhile, the GOP continued to fail to address any of the problems facing America.

[NaturalCommunist]

23. RepubliCON's should be aborted

This thread made me join.

Clearly they're more interested in a woman destroying a cluster of cells than fixing the economy. But does anyone think that the R's could fix the economy?

[hrmjustin]

24. Welcome to DU my friend!

[niyad]

32. welcome to DU. no, nobody with two arcing brain cells thinks the pukes can fix the economy,

but it would be nice if they focused some of that unbridled zeal they have for controlling women's lives on doing something useful. seppuku comes to mind, but. . .

[CBHagman]

22. Would that be the same Trent Franks who...

...voted against parental leave for federal employees, according mental health care parity with medical care, and expansion of SCHIP to cover more children?

Why, yes. Yes, it would.

They're interested in women carrying to term (note that I don't say "getting prenatal care and carrying to term&quot , but after that, folks -- especially you, kids -- well, good luck!

[Wounded Bear]

25. K & R....for women...nt

[niyad]

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[DCBob]

43. Imagine for a moment they also controlled the Senate and the WH.

Its not a pretty sight.

[niyad]

45. we would be in "the handmaid's tale" overnight

[niyad]

47. . . .