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<\/p>\nRUSH: It\u2019s arguable which is the big story today. I think this one is. This story and the New Green Deal combined could end up destroying Democrats\u2019 electability chances in 2020 if the information is used correctly. Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska proposed a simple bill in the United States Senate. It\u2019s called the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.<\/p>\n
It had one objective, and that was to force lawmakers to go on the record about whether they support or oppose infanticide. It was just a bill in the Senate. There is no counterpart in the House. The bill had no hope of becoming law, at least not any time soon, sadly. It was simply what Sasse says it is. \u201cI\u2019m gonna put people on the record.\u201d Kind of like what The Turtle did with the Green New Deal by calling for an early vote on it<\/p>\n
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Now, the bill in the Senate that Sasse authored is titled S. 311. It aimed to ensure that, quote, “If an abortion results in the live birth of an infant, the infant is a legal person for all purposes under the laws of the United States,\u201d and the Constitution, \u201cand entitled to all the protections of such laws.” Quite simple, isn\u2019t it? If an abortion results in the live birth of a baby, a baby human being, that baby, that human being is at that moment a legal person for all purposes under the laws of the U.S.<\/p>\n
What do you think happened? That bill failed. The vote was 53 to 44. They needed 60 votes for the bill to pass. A bunch of Democrats — and among them several Democrat candidates for the Democrat presidential nomination in 2020 — voted against the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. Three Democrats voted for it. Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Bob Casey Jr. Pennsylvania, Doug Jones of Alabama. Three Republicans did not vote. Senators Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Tim Scott of South Carolina.<\/p>\n
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However, Cramer and Scott missed the vote due to flight delays. They were gonna vote for it. They just didn\u2019t get there. So it would have been 55-42. \u201cThe vote was preceded by intense debate on the Senate floor, during which Democrats falsely claimed that the bill contained language that would hinder women\u2019s health care.\u201d<\/p>\n
Let me read to you the bill: \u201cIf an abortion results in the live birth of an infant, the infant is a legal person for all purposes under the laws of the United States, and entitled to all the protections of such laws.” Where is anything about the health of the mother in that bill? It isn\u2019t. There is nothing that would hinder women\u2019s health care.<\/p>\n
Do you not find it strange that in the United States of America we may need a separate piece of legislation to say that a human being is indeed a human being? And that now we\u2019ve got the Democrat Party in most numbers voting against that proposition? We thought it was bad when Ralph Northam of Virginia and then the New York state Senate gave it a standing O, but now it\u2019s the U.S. Senate, my friends, the U.S. Senate that says that baby ain\u2019t one. That baby is still a disease. It is still a sickness. It\u2019s still a problem for the mother!<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s a baby. I mean, it\u2019s a human being. It survived abortion. \u201cSenator Tina Smith, Democrat, Minnesota, claimed that the bill \u2018forces physicians to provide inappropriate medical treatment.\u2019\u201d It doesn\u2019t do anything of the sort! It doesn\u2019t force anybody to do anything except acknowledge that a baby is a baby! It doesn\u2019t put one bit of pressure on abortion providers or doctors.<\/p>\n
Senator Tina Smith, Democrat, Minnesota, then says, \u201cPuts Congress in the middle of the important medical decisions that patients and doctors should make together without political interference.” Without political interference? This is political interference. This is Democrat Party politics coming out in support of infanticide! Another clear example of how liberalism and the Democrats\u2019 current existence corrupts even human life!<\/p>\n
Senator Mazie Hirono from Hawaii, who, during the Kavanaugh hearings, told men to just shut the hell up and start behaving, also spoke against the bill. This bill — I read it to you — all that it requires is that a baby who survives an attempted abortion be treated like any other baby and be taken to the hospital for medical treatment. Practitioners who fail to comply would have been subject to fines or imprisonment up to five years or both. Not even a charge of murder! Killing a baby, it survives abortion, we\u2019re not even gonna call it murder. We\u2019re just gonna issue you a fine.<\/p>\n
Are you ready for this? Senator Sasse\u2019s bill \u201calso took care not to punish the mother, protecting her from prosecution \u2018for a violation of this section, an attempt to violate this section, [or] a conspiracy to violate this section.\u2019” So whatever happens, the mother is under no investigation, is under no penalty of any kind if her baby lives. Or if it\u2019s killed, the mother still has no responsibility! You talk about a get-out-of-jail-free card.<\/p>\n
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And, by the way, we\u2019re gonna have this bill that says if a baby survives abortion and it\u2019s born alive, then it\u2019s a baby, and it has full rights under the U.S. Constitution and U.S. law, by the way, we\u2019re not gonna hold the mother responsible for anything. And that didn\u2019t even entice any Democrats. Senator Sasse wrote an op-ed for Fox News in which he said this isn\u2019t about restricting access to abortion. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about making sure that newborn babies are treated with dignity and receive care whether they\u2019re born in the maternity wing or an abortion clinic. This is the bare minimum in humane treatment.”<\/p>\n
Just the fact that we have to explain this? We have to justify — hey, look, we\u2019re gonna talking about a baby that\u2019s born. And they\u2019re running around, they\u2019re calling Donald Trump Hitler? These people are calling Donald Trump Hitler? Trump tweeted while on Air Force One on the way to Hanoi to give away the United States to the North Koreans — ahem — Donald Trump tweeted — it\u2019s about 9 o\u2019clock last night Eastern time.<\/p>\n
“Senate Democrats just voted against legislation to prevent the killing of newborn infant children. The Democrat position on abortion is now so extreme that they don\u2019t mind executing babies AFTER birth. This will be remembered as one of the most shocking votes in the history of Congress. If there is one thing we should all agree on, it\u2019s protecting the lives of innocent babies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yeah. Whatever happened to “it\u2019s for the children,\u201d hmm? Now, who are the Democrat presidential candidates who voted against this, who refused to acknowledge that a baby born alive is a baby? Fauxcahontas, Elizabeth Warren; Crazy Bernie, who, by the way, demanded private jet travel while stumping the country for Hillary Clinton in 2016; Kirsten Gillibrand; Amy Klobuchar — didn\u2019t get to this yesterday. Amy Klobuchar once was at a restaurant. Somebody forgot to serve her silverware, so she took the comb out of her hair to eat her salad. And then she demanded her staff go wash the comb and upbraid the restaurant for refusing to bring her knife and fork or to get one.<\/p>\n
\nRepublican politicians just tried (and failed) again to score political points at the expense of women. Enough.<\/p>\n
Women and their doctors should decide what\u2019s best for their health \u2013 not the @SenateGOP<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) February 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n