Pirate's Cove

So, what was it that the House GOP passed? Was it a national ban on abortion? Making it a felony for a doctor to perform an abortion? What horrific, dastardly things did they pass?

Republican-controlled House pushes for new abortion restrictions

The Republican-led House on Wednesday pressed ahead with a pair of anti-abortion measures, despite warning signs that the issue had galvanized the opposition in the wake of the supreme court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade last year.

They must be really bad, putting massive restrictions on a “woman’s right to choose”, on a “woman’s right to reproductive freedom” (though, the same abortion nuts do not seem to be able to define what is a woman anymore)

Voting mostly along party lines, Republicans first approved a bill that would compel doctors to provide care for an infant who survives an attempted abortion – an occurrence that is exceedingly rare.

After its passage, Republicans broke into applause on the House floor as the bill’s sponsor, congresswoman Ann Wagner, a Republican of Missouri, waved the text of the legislation in celebration.

Democrats, several of them wearing white in protest, remained silent. However, on the measure, two Texas Democrats broke with the party: the congressman Henry Cuellar, who opposes abortion, supported it while his colleague Vicente González voted present.

The House also passed a non-binding resolution condemning attacks on pregnancy crisis centers, with the support of all Republicans and three Democrats.

Wait, that’s it? This is what Democrats and abortion on demand supporters are upset about? Having to give a baby born alive medical care and condemning attacks on pregnancy centers? I’m not so sure that it would galvanize opposition from non-abortion nuts.

Anti-abortion groups have long pushed so-called “born alive” legislation similar to the version under consideration in the House, which could carry a prison sentence of up to five years for medical workers.

Critics, including medical professionals, say such measures are based on distortions and misinformation about what is often an extremely painful and often unwanted decision to end a pregnancy. Abortions after the point of viability, which is defined as about 23 weeks, are extremely uncommon, according to federal and state data. In the rare instances they do happen, they often involve serious fetal abnormalities or risks to the life of the mother.

If it’s so rare, why are Democrats so upset? If the baby is born alive, what risk is there to the life of the mother? The baby is out.

“The bill directly interferes with a doctor’s medical judgment and dictates a medical standard of care that may not be appropriate in all circumstances, which could, in fact, put infants’ lives at greater risk,” Nadler said.

The doctor’s judgement is to let the baby die? Isn’t that against their oath?