DROPPED: Amendment forcing military hospitals to commit abortions
UPDATE 12/18 9:35p: Here’s Nancy’s statement condemning the amendment’s exclusion. Read it and smile.
12/17, 4:52: The abortion industry will obviously lose influence in the 112th Congress, when pro-lifers dominate, particularly in the House. Just ask Nancy…
But pro-aborts are also losing influence even yet in the 111th, when pro-abort Democrats still rule. Just as we’ve seen the other side cave to fiscal conservative concerns, so also are we seeing them cave to pro-life concerns.
On December 15 the Senate Armed Services Committee dropped the controversial Burris Amendment from the Dept. of Defense authorization bill, which would have forced domestic and overseas military hospitals to commit abortions.
According to Medical News Today today:
Leaders of the House and Senate armed services committees have agreed to a… bill (HR 6523) that has been stripped of its most controversial provisions, including a policy that would have permitted abortion services at military hospitals….
Although the House passed its version of the authorization bill in May, the Senate twice voted against bringing its bill to the floor, largely because of GOP opposition several provisions, including a provision that would have repealed the 1993 “don’t ask, don’t tell” law banning openly gay people from serving in the military. The DADT provision has also been removed from the new authorization bill.
In a statement, [Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Carl] Levin (D-MI)Levin and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), ranking member of the committee, said the “unique circumstances in which the bill is being considered” have led the committee and its House counterpart “to drop many controversial provisions” included in the original bills (CQ Today, 12/15).
Apparently the Burris Amendment was just brought along for the ride with DADT and was never a serious cause célèbre for Democrats.
The House passed the DOD authorization bill today, easily – 341-48 – and the only foreseen roadblock in the Senate has nothing to do with abortion but is all about Guantánamo Bay.
So pro-lifers can rest that military hospitals will not be converted into abortion mills. Bye bye, Burris Amendment.
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.
But, but, the election results were just about the economy right?
Lol! None of the abortionists ever miss a chance to ask for money!
NARAL is on the wrong side of history. 42 more pro-life votes will be sworn in come January and this is just phase one of the conservative ascendancy. In 2012 conservatives will add to those numbers and take the Senate as well. Today the polls say that Obama’s approval rating is down to 40%.
As an Illinois resident I must ask: Has anyone seen Burris lately? This do nothing seat warmer in the Senate was an absolute disgrace. His proposed amendment was as fraudulent as was his appointment to the Senate by the man-child former gov Blagoevich.
All of Boehner’s 142 choices … were anti-choice.
NARAL = idiots.
Hi Jerry,
Was it my imagination or was Burris treated by white Democrat liberal Senators Dingy Harry and Dick Turban as if he should be entering the Senate through the servant’s entrance? They finally agreed to accept Burris and pose with Burris between them, which was extremely white of them.
I can only imagine the media reaction if conservative senators had treated a black appointee to the senate in this manner. Certainly we’d hear from the Revs. Sharpton and Jackson.
Another example of how Democrats and liberals are given a free pass when it comes to race.
I’m liking Boehner more and more.
Cranky, that’s too funny.
Hi Mary:
It really was great political theater, wasn’t it? The soft bigotry of the MSM and the hypocrisy of the leftists is a thing to behold.
Sadly, almost unbelieveably, Illinoians did not learn from the Blagoevich fiasco and put the lib choicer “Catholic” Pat Quinn in for another four years. It is almost too painful to talk about. But it goes to show how the influence of two or three highly populated counties and a compliant media can sway an election. I have not confirmed the numbers, but it was reported that 99 out of 102 counties went for the pro-life Bill Brady. Cook county (Chicago) and a couple of collar counties to Cook took the bait served up by the libs and swallowed it hook, line and sinker.
Yes Jerry I understand that there were only 3 counties that gave the election to pro-death Quinn, but I think they were Cook (Chicago mainly), Cole and Alexander counties (I think they were downstate near St. Louis but someone can correct me if I’m wrong). Unbelievable and pathetic. The unions went on the war path to elect Quinn although Illinois is considered in the toilet financially and is now voted the WORST place in the US to retire due to horrible debt, high taxes that are going to go even higher and severe cold winters.
Thanks for the correction, Prolifer L. It looks like Illinois is really a red state. Let’s make Chicago the 51st state and let them try to run the city without financial support from the rest of us.