House takes up far-reaching anti-abortion bill

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The abortion wars return to Congress in a big way with House legislation to ban almost all abortions after a fetus reaches the age of 20 weeks.

The legislation expected to pass the Republican-controlled House as early as Tuesday has no chance of becoming law in the near future: The Democratic-led Senate will ignore it and the White House has issued a veto threat. But the measure gives social conservatives a rare chance to promote their anti-abortion agenda and lays the groundwork for what could be a future challenge to the 1973 Supreme Court decision that confirmed a woman's right to late-term abortions.

The two sides in the abortion debate agreed at least on the importance of the measure.

National Right to Life Committee legislative director Douglas Johnson said it was the "most significant piece of pro-life legislation to come before the House since the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act" that was enacted in 2003. Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said the bill "clearly is an attack on women's constitutional right to choose and is one of the most far-reaching bans on abortion this committee has ever considered."

Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CONGRESS_ABORTION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-06-18-03-17-20

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For general UK comparison , if of interest , see here :

Abortion in the United Kingdom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_the_United_Kingdom

Abortion NHS Choices http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Abortion/Pages/Introduction.aspx

[LeftofObama]

1. Good to see they're still hard at work creating

jobs, jobs, jobs!

[Botany]

2. just another meaningless exercise like trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act ....

.... no way it passes the senate or is not vetoed by President O.. Republicans once again
pissing away time and money and all the time not helping the American people with what
we need.

BTW tell me again how the GOP is not conducting a war on women's rights? Old white men
tellling women what they can and can't do w/their bodies .....

[TransitJohn]

3. Where are the jobs, assholes?

Fucking GOP wankers.

[RoccoR5955]

4. They must not want women to vote for them

AGAIN!
What a bunch of clueless bass turds!

[atreides1]

5. But the reality...

Is that women will vote for them, the same religiously fanatical women that voted for them in the last election cycle and the same women will vote for them in the next election cycle!

Not all women feel that they should have certain rights, while most women will agree that they should have the right to vote(except Ann Coulter), not all feel that they should get equal pay for equal work, or that they should have the right to decide what legal medical procedures are correct for them as individuals.

If all women were in agreement about equality then most of these knuckle dragging, mouth breathers that are "serving" in state legislatures, governor's mansions, and in the US Congress would in reality be unemplolyed...

Remember Republican/Tea Party women are still voting for men who want to remove any rights they have...and they will continue to vote the same way until it happens!!!

[sinkingfeeling]

6. But, but, their ministers told them to vote for the 'family values' GOP!!

[AlbertCat]

8. But, but, their ministers told them to vote for the 'family values' GOP!!

And after all, they know a man knows best... right?

[historylovr]

7. K & R

[blkmusclmachine]

9. Republican War on Women.

And too many so-called "Democrats" stand idly by while the GOP enacts its vile legislation, all in the name of "bi-partisanship."

[FiveGoodMen]

10. bipartisanship = deal-with-the-devil

...or it means 'peace in our time'...

...it means someone is corrupt or someone is an idiot...

...and it's coming from the White House.