Support H.R. 36

[little2add]

H.R. 36, the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, would bar post-20-week abortions except in cases of reported rape or incest or where a pregnancy poses a physical threat to the mother’s life. In the last Congress, the bill was numbered H.R. 1797.

A companion bill is expected to be introduced in the U.S. Senate.

The bill, sponsored by Representatives Trent Franks (AZ-8) and Marsha Blackburn (TN-7), is based on scientific research showing that unborn babies are capable of feeling pain at 20 weeks of development.

A prior version of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act was adopted by the House of Representatives in 2014, but never received a vote in the Senate.

During the week of May 13, 2015, the  US House of Representatives will vote on this bill.



 

[NadaTeTurbe]

WHaaaaaaaat ? Past 20 week abortions are allowed in the US ???? I think that here it's something like until 12 weeks, except if threat to the mother's life  

I hope this bill pass ! It's a good beginning ! 

[dUSt]

The rape or incest exception is not logical.

You cannot abort your child unless they were a result of rape or incest. =

You cannot harm your child unless they were a result of rape or incest. =

You cannot physically abuse your child unless they were a result of rape or incest.

What does one have to do with the other?

Edited May 13, 2015 by dUSt

[Basilisa Marie]

The rape or incest exception is not logical.

You cannot abort your child unless they were a result of rape or incest. =

You cannot harm your child unless they were a result of rape or incest. =

You cannot physically abuse your child unless they were a result of rape or incest.

What does one have to do with the other?

​It's basically to get more people on board to signing the bill. 

[Basilisa Marie]

WHaaaaaaaat ? Past 20 week abortions are allowed in the US ???? I think that here it's something like until 12 weeks, except if threat to the mother's life  

I hope this bill pass ! It's a good beginning ! 

​They were talking about it on NPR this morning. It sounds like a lot of states have already made abortions illegal past 20 weeks, this would just extend it to all the states. 

[Luigi]

The bill passed the House of Representatives today. 

 

[little2add]

surprise surprise

President Barack Obama vowed to veto legislation that would reduce the time one can get an elective abortion from 24 to 20 weeks. “The Administration strongly opposes H.R. 36, which would unacceptably restrict women’s health and reproductive rights and is an assault on a woman’s right to choose,” the president’s veto threat read. “Women should be able to make their own choices about their bodies and their health care, and Government should not inject itself into decisions best made between a woman and her doctor.”

[little2add]

 Definition of abomination :

Sponsoring Congressman Trent Franks of Arizona says 

“More than 18,000 ‘very late term’ abortions are performed every year on perfectly healthy unborn babies in America. These are innocent and defenseless children who can not only feel pain, but who can survive outside of the womb in most cases, and who are torturously killed without even basic anesthesia.   Many of them cry and scream as they die, but because it is amniotic fluid going over their vocal cords instead of air, we don’t hear them.”

[tinytherese]

Even if it did pass, I can see women falsely claiming that they got pregnant through rape or incest so that they can get abortions so late in their pregnancies.

[little2add]

Results:  4 republicans voted "no" and 4 democrates voted "yes"    The president has already  vowed to  veto

	AYES	NOES	PRES	NV
REPUBLICAN	238	4	1	1
DEMOCRATIC	4	180		4
INDEPENDENT
TOTALS	242	184	1	5