Senate committee passes amendment repealing ban against privately funded abortions on military bases
Yesterday behind closed doors pro-abort US Sen. Roland Burris (D–IL, who took Obama’s place) offered an amendment in the Senate Armed Services Committee to strike a 14-yr-old ban against privately funded abortions at both domestic and overseas military facilities.
The ban has been in place since Congress overturned President Clinton’s 1993 authorization in 1996. Public funded abortions at military facilities have been banned since 1979 except in the cases or rape, incest, or when a mother’s life is in danger….
Roland’s amendment passed 15-12. Since the vote was held behind closed doors, the breakdown isn’t known except sources say Ben Nelson was the only Democrat to oppose the amendment. See the committee list here.
A similar amendment to allow abortions in overseas military facilities failed in the House in 2006 by a vote of 191-237.
The Burris amendment is more expansive than the 2006 amendment because it allows abortions on both domestic and overseas military bases. The other side usually offers the rationale for abortions at overseas bases that they’re otherwise hard to find. But this argument doesn’t hold up domestically. Roland’s amendment is definitely an overreach, and it comes at an odd time when the public is majorly pro-life.
The Burris amendment would effectively turn U.S. military medical facilities into abortion clinics and force American taxpayers to underwrite the use of military facilities, the procurement of additional equipment, and the use of needed military personnel to perform abortions.
During the time Clinton authorized privately funded elective abortions, all military physicians as well as many nurses and supporting personnel refused to commit or assist with them so the administration was forced to hire civilians to do the deed.
If the Burris amendment were enacted, not only would taxpayer funded facilities be used to support abortion on demand, but resources would have to likely be used to search for, hire, and transport new personnel simply to commit abortions.
Burris is a lame duck who’s out come November. He was wooed to introduce this amendment by the usual suspects – NARAL, the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, National Abortion Federation, Catholics for Choice, etc.
Pro-lifers will try to block this on the Senate and House Floors.
The other side never stops.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Good night, but he looks so smug I am honest-to-goodness itching to punch him in the face.
A quick trip around the internet finds beleaguered atheists tiring of absurd state of public opinion on homosexuality and public funding of abortion.
http://fourthcheckraise.blogspot.com/2010/05/hoping-to-punctuate-their-vacation-with.html
“Hoping to punctuate their vacation with a romantic liaison…”
POSTED BY ILKKA ON FRIDAY, MAY 28, 2010 /
“As I have written before, I am pro-choice, but it’s not an important issue for me and I certainly consider other freedoms such as thought, speech and property vastly more fundamental, and everyone who wants an abortion can do so on their own dime. The Star has for the past week whined about the current Harper administration not financing enough abortions in the Third World. I feel so old, thinking back to a simpler time when the notion that there are too many black people so we need abortion to cull their numbers was considered bad. Imagine that. I guess the pendulum swings both ways, and I am just behind the times, as usual. But perhaps this is no more odd than, say, how a fortysomething Catholic priest who has sex with a 16-year-old boy is a “pedophile”, but a secular gay rights activist of the same age who campaigns for the age of consent to be lowered to 14 somehow is not. (To say nothing of… well, you know who.) Or how a fat middle-aged white guy who travels to the steamy Third World to have sex with the poor locals is a disgusting pig, but a middle-aged woman or a gay man doing the same is a bold trailblazer… in fact, hell, I now recall one Star article a few months ago that actually adviced Western gay men how to best do this.”
Senator Burris is “Exhibit A” on how corrupt our system has become. The disgraced former Governor of Illinois surveyed the political landscape and out of some 12 million Illinois residents he found Roland Burris as the most qualified to fill Obama’s seat.
Roland has already built a monument unto himself for when he passes to the great beyond (see link) and has ample room upon which his many accomplishments yet to be achieved can be engraved. Perhaps there will be enough room to include a reference to this latest “accomplishment”, something to the effect of how wonderful it was that through his efforts thousands of babies never saw the light of day. What a man!
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How ironic that when Burris first arrived at the senate he was treated like he should come in the servant’s entrance…by Democrats Reid and Durbin.
He was actually uppity enought to take his senate seat.
Apparently the fact that Illinois’ corrupt governor appointed him offended the suddenly tender sensibilities of Reid and Durbin.
Have you ever heard this bumbling moron talk? I feel like he is this desperate nerd at school trying to fit in with the jocks and willing to make a fool of himself for 15 minutes of fame.
Hi Sydney M,
What is ironic is that he tries to fit in with the very people who treated him like the uppity colored boy. He actually had the audacity to demand entrance through the front door! I can still recall the pictures of him standing out in the rain.
You’d think the man would have a little more self respect.
Sydney and Mary: Especially priceless is Roland’s reading of “The Night Before Christmas” that he actually delivered from the Senate floor. I kid you not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpDDmm566nY
Ugh, I want to puke. Military healthcare facilities used to be the only place we could go for healthcare and be reasonably sure that it was elective-abortion-free… thanks a lot, Armed Services Committee. One of the members of the committee is actually a representative from our state (my husband’s home state which he’s still a resident of and I am now a resident of). I just emailed this buttwipe and gave him a piece of my mind. I’m sorry but I cannot stand this arrogant dude. Every time I email him, I get a letter or email back basically saying that he “understands my concerns” (he does not) but he is going to vote the other way because… (insert flimsy, liberal-humanist excuse here). I’ll probably get a letter/email back from him (again) yakking about “supporting women’s healtcare”. *Sigh* And what about the military healthcare providers who will now be forced to provide abortions? Military hospitals are where medics get their practical experience. Looks like they’re going to get more experience than they bargained for. But what if this is an experience that they don’t want? The military healthcare system has its issues but elective abortion isn’t going to make it better, let me tell ya.
My husband is not thrilled with this either. Abortion in military healthcare facilities… sometimes I wish a Christian could curse. @%$#!*&%!!!!!!! What the $^%&$# is wrong with society, anyway? Grrr! Abortion sucks!
The fact that abortion is euphemistically referred to as “women’s healthcare” is extremely offensive to me as a woman. That would be like calling rape a part of “men’s healthcare”. Rape and abortion are both about abusing someone else’s body for your own selfish ends.
Ok, I feel slightly better. Thanks for letting me blow my stack. It’s a beautiful day outside and it’s a shame such awful news had to mar it.
Hi Jerry,
OY!!!
At least the congressman who asked if the island of Guam might tip over had the excuse of possible cognititive dysfunction from hepatitis.