Gosnell resolution introduced in both House and Senate
UPDATE 5/9 2:15p: Last night Representatives Fincher, Stutzman, and Blackburn introduced the House version of the Gosnell resolution, which calls on Congress to review illegal abortion practices.
Meanwhile, pro-abortion Senators Blumenthal, Boxer, and Shaheen are trying to block the Gosnell resolution in the Senate and have introduced a watered down resolution condemning bad behavior in medical facilities everywhere. Pro-life Senator Lee, pictured right, responded with a hoot of a gotcha. According to the Daily Caller, he said:
I am heartened and I think all Americans should be heartened and the entire pro-life movement should be heartened by the clear implication in this proposal that health regulations should be equitably applied and enforced on abortion clinics as they are on other healthcare facilities.
5/7 9:23a: Even as some on our side have begun to complain that Republicans are not taking advantage of the Gosnell massacre to introduce pro-life legislation, as Democrats did by introducing anti-gun legislation after the Newtown massacre, pro-life legislators and wonks have been and are working on it.
The first response was unveiled late yesterday, when pro-life Utah Republican U.S. Senator Mike Lee, along with 10 co-sponsors, introduced an as yet unnumbered resolution calling for Congress to “investigate and correct abusive, unsanitary, and illegal abortion practices.”
What abortion supporter interested in “safe” abortions could possibly oppose investigating and outing unsafe abortion clinics nationwide? We shall soon see.
The resolution also addresses an issue that is long overdue, to “evaluate the extent to which such abortions involved violations of the natural right to life of infants who are born alive or are capable of being born alive.”
The Born Alive Infants Protection Act was passed in 2002, but there has never been any follow-up to determine whether the law was being violated.
Since then, incidents have been reported of abortion survivors who were left to die, such as the baby who was born alive in a toilet in an Orlando, Florida, abortion clinic in 2005, and who clinic workers abandoned to die despite pleas from his mother; or the baby who was zipped still alive in a biohazard bag and thrown on the roof of a Hialeah, Florida, abortion clinic in 2006.
Lee’s resolution also addresses the issue of fetal pain, interstate trafficking for abortions, the woeful lack of abortion reporting among the states, unenforced abortion clinic regulations, and mentions as an example of unsafe abortion clinics the “meat market” that is Planned Parenthood of Delaware. It’s a great piece of work.
Again, let’s see who could possibly oppose such a common sense resolution, although my guess is it could start at the top….
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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 legislation, but they might have brought this up during the 2012 campaign. I won’t say legislation like this has no chance now but it would have a better chance had pro-life politicians been doing more over the last couple of decades or more. This could be a case of too little too late, though I still applaud the effort.
Probably prove about as successful as the attempts at tightening gun control legislation.
The actions of the democrats in both the house and the senate show a willingness to look the other way even as innocent victims are slaughtered in here-to-fore unimaginable circumstances. Cowardice on display! These are crimes that are so horrific that Dr. Gosnell may have earned himself a place in a house of horrors wax museum, and yet the democrats are cowering in the hinterlands lest they offend the all powerful abortion lobby which would surely spell the end of their careers.
If there is a single “democrat for life” still out there this should be the clincher for them to abandon their folly. The democrat party has completely sold out. If they can’t see the democrat party for what is has become they are either too dimwitted or intellectually dishonest with themselves and their constituencies to admit otherwise.
The actions of the republicans in both the house and the senate show a willingness to look the other way even as innocent victims are slaughtered in here-to-fore unimaginable circumstances. Cowardice on display! These are crimes that are so horrific that Adam Lanza may have earned himself a place in a house of horrors wax museum, and yet the republicans are cowering in the hinterlands lest they offend the all powerful gun lobby which would surely spell the end of their careers.
If there is a single “republican for life” still out there this should be the clincher for them to abandon their folly. The republican party has completely sold out. If they can’t see the republican party for what is has become they are either too dimwitted or intellectually dishonest with themselves and their constituencies to admit otherwise.
It never ceases to amaze me that the only tactic of the pro-abort side is to hide behind euphemisms of “reproductive rights” and “women’s rights” and then, when confronted point-blank with the hideous and gruesome reality of abortion and the true nature of abortionists, they scream, “What about gun control and war and the death penalty?”. Seriously, please stay on topic and admit that you fully endorse the horrific, unsanitary methods of serial killers like Gosnell, and that you have no respect for the children they murder. JUST ADMIT IT and stop trying to go off on tangents.
I am so glad that Congress is going to investigate abortion clinics and deaths of infants born alive. It is one very small step in the right direction. Maybe the investigations will cause some clinics to shut down and some lives of children to be saved. In the name of Jesus, let these investigations not be shut down or derailed.
So why don’t we ban abortion tools Reality? Just take away the tools… that’ll solve the problem, right? Just like how guns kill people and you want to take away guns, we’ll just take away the tools that are used for abortions. You up for legislation that will restrict the usage of abortion tools, the level of tools (currettes versus scissors), do background checks on all abortion doctors to ensure they all have real medical degrees from reputable medical schools. Because, you know, you’re all about saving the children, right?
Forever and whenever Gosnell is spoken of the Democratic party and Planned Parenthood and Barack Obama and Obama’s mouthpiece Ex-RINO all share in the infamy.
“you want to take away guns” - I don’t want to take away guns. I want gun control and ownership laws tightened.
And I certainly support abortion tools – which are also used for other procedures by the way – being tightly controlled and only permitted for use by appropriately qualified medical personnel.
Will you support the same parameters being applied to guns?