Yesterday the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, a bill that would ban sex-selective abortions in the U.S., garnered an overwhelming majority vote in the House, 246-168.

But PRENDA still failed. Why?

Simply, the vote procedure used (“Suspension of the Rules”) required a two-thirds majority to pass.

Why not go for majority vote?

If such an overwhelming number of congresspersons were known to support PRENDA, why didn’t Republican House leaders follow a route to passage that only required a simple majority?

While the headline of this post is shocking, it will come as no surprise to those of us who know how strongly Obama supports abortion – one-child policy – with its forced abortion, forced sterilization, female feticide, and female infanticide – comes nowhere close to AZ’s human rights violations of attempting to enforce federal illegal […]