Posted on 05/11/2022 5:49:50 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
Senate Democrats wanted to manufacture a political optic using the hot button issue of abortion. The senate pushed a bill for a massive expansion of abortion, far beyond Roe -v- Wade, to the floor. However, the bill needed 60 votes to pass cloture, end debate.
Embarrassingly, and in a pure political stunt, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer summoned Kamala Harris to the upper chamber in the event she was needed for a “tie-breaking” vote. However, cloture requires 60 votes, not 50, so the optics of Harris only highlighted the insufferable politics.
The cloture vote failed 49-51, far short of the 60 votes needed to end debate and attempt to pass the bill. Democrat Senator Joe Manchin voted with republicans to block the cloture effort. The federal abortion legislation now disappears back into the filing cabinet from which it came.
WASHINGTON – […] In a 49-51 vote, the Senate rejected the Democratic legislation, with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and all Republicans voting against the measure. While the outcome was no surprise and mirrored a similar vote on abortion protections the Senate took in February, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer suggested the court’s draft opinion, published by POLITICO last week, had raised the stakes.
“Today’s vote is one of the most consequential we will take in decades because for the first time in 50 years, a conservative majority, an extreme majority on the Supreme Court, is on the brink of declaring that women do not have freedom over their own bodies,” Schumer said in a floor speech Wednesday morning, adding that the decision “will live in infamy.” (read more)
According to Manchin’s earlier statement, “Democrats are “trying to make people believe that this is the same thing as codifying Roe v. Wade. And I want you to know, it’s not,” he argued, referring to the bill’s ban on some state restrictions on the procedure currently allowed. “This is not the same. It expands abortion.”
Kamala Harris has a sad moment in the Senate, created by Chuck Schumer {Direct Rumble Link} WATCH:
It's response is mine exactly.
May God protect those who are the newest of his children.
It is time to extinguish this Great Evil.
...until next week when global warming really kicks in.
The vote today will help pave the way for the Supreme Court’s decision.
That will be a life or death decision, for millions of babies.
May God protect every one of his children from this great evil.
My opinion is that they wanted this to fail for now, so they can use it in the upcoming elections. If they got this passed, they wouldn’t be able to rant and rave about abortion and rile up their troops.
49 Senators who give sanction to shedding innocent blood is a terrible indicator of our nation’s downfall and depravity. We do not deserve to have a single day of peace, rest, or abundance with a record like that. LORD, have mercy!
Seems to me that it was a bi-partisan rejection an extreme piece of legislation.
The #ComDems believe they are above the law. They think they can do anything they want and nobody can overrule them.
They ignore the LAW.
They think they are Above the Law.
Yes.
Amen
What link? What baby?
The source link.
We have classified Conservative Treehouse as a blogger (he is, but is more accurate than any of the MSM).
But Sundance owns his images. So I may post the entire article but that does not included the images.
They may think that but is One Whose Law cannot be broken or set aside by human whims and if they do not repent His judgment will fall upon them like a ton of bricks.
Agree
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