House to vote on 20-wk abortion ban ~May 13
On the heels of a second protest at Speaker Boehner’s office, the Weekly Standard announced this morning that the U.S. House will vote on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act around the anniversary of the May 13, 2013, conviction of late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell.
A source told me midway through the 3-1/2 month process of arriving at language that satisfied all contingents, “This is the most complicated bill I’ve ever worked on.”
Farthest apart were pro-lifers who wanted the rape/incest exception removed from the bill entirely and those who wanted the reporting requirement removed from the rape/incest exception.
Ultimately the compromise reached semi-removes (for adults only) the reporting requirement, replacing it with a doctor/counseling requirement, and adds new language making the bill ultimately stronger than ever.
The new language will make committing late-term abortions with exceptions very unappealing for the slime who would commit them in the first place.
Final language isn’t available, but LifeNews.com has a decription:
According to pro-life sources who spoke with LifeNews, the rape exception language will be airtight by requiring some sort of documented medical treatment or counseling 48 hours prior to the abortion (so hopefully the mother has a further chance to weigh abortion alternatives). In addition, such treatment or counseling must be provided by physicians or counselors that are outside of the abortion industry. In cases of rape or incest of a minor, the abuse must first be reported to either social service or law enforcement.
As pro-life sources have informed LifeNews, other new provisions of the bill that strengthen in include a born-alive infant protection requirement that requires a second doctor be present and prepared to provide care to the child if he or she is born alive and that the child must receive the same level of care as would any other premature infant. The baby must then be transported and admitted to a hospital. The woman is also empowered with a right to sue if the law is not followed, and is provided with an informed consent form that notifies her of the age of her baby and the requirements under the law.
Abortionists are explicitly required to follow state mandatory reporting laws and state parental involvement laws. Finally, abortionists are required to report any late abortions done under the exceptions to the Center for Disease Control and such data will be compiled into an annual public report to ensure accountability.
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.
Beautifully done! Thank you to the pro-life lawmakers who have worked so hard for this. Be encouraged, and keep it up!
To be honest, I like John Boehner. I admire his good work in Congress.
Yet the art of politics is confusing, and I don’t understand a lot of it. Boehner wants to protect viable children from the torture of dismemberment and abortion. Boehner likes the pro-life advocates who have supported him and his work.
And yet…. It seems like Boehner is afraid of the “appearance” that he has caved to to the “pressure” of pro-lifers. Perhaps he doesn’t want to look like those Democrats who are clearly owned by Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry.
Its a strange world, in which the primary legislator-advocate for this legislation cannot meet with the primary citizen-advocates supporting him. Washington dynamics are just weird.
May 13 is much more than the anniversary of Gosnell’s conviction.
May 13 is a spiritually significant day.
— It is the date of the first appearance of Our Lady of Fatima.
— It is the date of the assassination attempt to kill Pope St. John Paul II, who gave credit to Our Lady of Fatima for saving his life.
It is a date filled with hope and promise for Life.
Pro-life legislation can be really strange. I mean, here is this direct intent to kill a child with an abortion, and here is a law telling someone whose purpose is to kill said child, to *save* said child if said child somehow miraculously lives through the brutality of an abortion.
I guess I just have a hard time picturing any abortionist as changing hats from being the agent of death to the agent of life within moments, really. I mean, how about just doing a c-section & saving that baby to begin with?
Also, it is done in such secrecy and behind closed doors, and we are already dealing with people who are killing as a business, that lying and falsifying records is such a *minor* crime by comparison for them. I think these regulations are good to put in place, and I am not saying they are completely useless, but I do hope that they save some babies.
I suppose eventually we will reach a point that the increments increase to provide full legal rights to all children who reside in the womb.
Leave it to non-principled, pro-life compromisers to call this language an improvement on the previous attempts at crafting the PCUCPA, or in any way stronger than the January bill. The referenced LifeNews article claims the “language” is airtight. This law, in action, will most likely leak like a drafty house with all the windows thrown open. And, ultimately, who are we depending on for enforcement? The abortionists. Who will be referring clients to non abortion related counselors? The abortionists will. Who will define and judge the qualifications of the “social services”? The abortionists will. How will we monitor all these illusory protections, these hoops to jump through behind closed doors? Will our pro-life, compromise-accepting “leaders” be on call in the nation’s abortion clinics to oversee that all the steps are fully completed?
There is the woeful refrain from some of our “leaders” about the “political process.” Lots of handwringing and complaining about “having to”add exceptions to pro-life laws without any indication of a strategy put forth from the “leaders” to end the “exceptions era” of pro-life philosophy. For this bill specifically, the “political process” was miscalculated. Do we really believe that in a Republican dominated House and Senate, a clean, no exceptions bill would not pass when that vote is taken within the environment of a certain Presidential veto that cannot be overturned? When we know this will not become law anyway, why not pass the strongest law possible to show what we truly believe? The reason the process of finding the right language was so convoluted was because of the inclusion of the rape exception. With an uncomplicated, no exceptions bill, the hoops and hurdles are not necessary.
Speaking as someone who is rape conceived, this process offends me. Who the heck are these people, these compromisers, who think that they can negotiate away my right to life? I realize that it is not actually MY life that is currently unprotected by this proposed legislation. My mission, and the mission of SaveThe1.com, is to speak in defense of the exceptions, those babies who ARE currently left unprotected.
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