Posted on 04/23/2007 4:12:44 PM PDT by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The pro-abortion Freedom of Choice Act was officially introduced on Thursday and the legislation would codify the Roe v. Wade decision into law. That would make legalized abortion the law of the land, but it also would overturn the pro-life laws state legislature have enacted.
The FOCA bill would "bar government, at any level, from interfering with a woman's fundamental right to choose to bear a child or to terminate a pregnancy."
Sen. Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, is behind the bill in the Senate and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, is the sponsor of the bill in the House.
"We can no longer rely on the Supreme Court to protect a woman's constitutional right to choose," Nadler said in introducing the bill and responding to the high court's decision to uphold a national ban on partial-birth abortions.
Democrats control both chambers and the measure will likely get a hearing in both but there are likely enough votes to stop the bill, especially in the Senate where any senator can use a filibuster to force a 60-vote majority to cut off debate.
Boxer said she would start with the 52 senators, including eight Republicans, who voted in 2003 to affirm the principles of Roe v. Wade.
However, Sen. Diane Feinstein admitted to the Associated Press that abortion activists likely don't have the votes to move it forward.
"We've been losing fight after fight after fight," she said.
Sen. Diane Feinstein admitted to the Associated Press that abortion activists likely don't have the votes to move it forward.
"We've been losing fight after fight after fight," she said.
Following the high court's decision, leading abortion advocates said they would put the bill back on the table.
"So how are we going to defeat this ban now that Bush's appointees upheld it? Simple," NARAL's president Nancy Keenan explained in an email to her supporters that LifeNews.com obtained.
"We're starting an all-out campaign to support the Freedom of Choice Act. Here's how it starts: The Freedom of Choice Act is legislation that would codify Roe v. Wade into law, and guarantee the right to choose for generations to come," she said.
The Feminist Majority Foundation agreed and emailed its donors saying "We must work to pass the Freedom of Choice Act, which will codify Roe so that it cannot be further assaulted."
Abortion advocates first promoted the Freedom of Choice Act during the early part of the Clinton administration but gave up on it after Republicans took control of Congress because most of them were staunchly pro-life.
Pro-Life Ping
Evil Ghouls are in charge of congress. Sickening.
Freedom of choice to kill an innocent human...sickening and disgusting.
At least doing this puts them on the record as being in favor of abortion on demand. Roe vs. Wade codified abortion on demand without anyone having to vote on the subject. They have been getting a free ride on this since they could point to the court decision as being something “spoken by God” to paraphrase Nancy Pelosi.
I would like to see where people stand on the issues rather than hiding behind a court decision and saying “God has spoken” and implying nothing can be done about whatever the court has said.
Do the DemocRATS really want to vote on this bill? There are quite a few “conservative Democrats” who got elected by paper thin margins in Republican districts last November.
True, but this news brought a big smile to my lips.
Smoking these folks out into the open is the best thing that can happen. This bill is but one of their desperate attempts to stop a train that has left the station.
Will Senator Casey Jr. and the rest of the Catholic Senators oppose this legislation with the same amount of effort as the Senator Rick Santorum?
Is Casey Jr Pro life or Pro Abortion?
"We've been losing fight after fight after fight," she said.
That's because you abort your future voters.
Scumbag abortionists.... Giuliani, Boxer, Pelosi, Clinton .....etc etc etc
Hell, Rudy would say it’s “good law” and sign it.
If the Supreme Court declared PBA to be unconstitutional, and the Supreme Court declares things to be Constitutional or Unconstitutional, how is a Act going to prevent the Supreme Court from deeming this Unconstitutional? Am I missing something?
Too bad for the Dems, this won’t work in their favor, with a sitting Republican President and a Senate that can filibuster, this is more vain than anything else...if anything, this is an attempt to make the Democrats look like they have all the power in the eyes of their constituents. The fact that the Supreme Court voted in favor of banning PBA has made their party look weak.
I revel in it.
This is legislation being proposed by the child killers in the House and Senate. I don't see how the President is involved.
Anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life scumbags unite.
The Supreme Court DID NOT declare PBA unconstitutional, they declared the law banning it constitutional. There is a somewhat subtle but VERY BIG difference.
He can veto it or sign the bill.
No doubt about it. ;^)
Because the president is the person who signs into law or vetoes laws passed by Congress.
Oh okay. That makes sense. Thank You.
The libs are using Roe v Wade to kill a million and a half babies a years as things currently stand. WHAT a million and a half a year ain’t enough for em ???
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