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Senate Fails to Pass 20-Week Abortion Ban
NRO ^ | 1/29/18 | Alexandra Desanctis

Posted on 01/29/2018 5:23:16 PM PST by aspasia

The Senate failed this evening to pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would’ve banned abortions after 20 weeks, after Democrats filibustered the bill. In a 51–46 vote, the bill failed to make it out of debate and to a final floor vote.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 20week; abortion; filibuster; prolife; senate
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1 posted on 01/29/2018 5:23:16 PM PST by aspasia
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To: aspasia

At least democrats now have some accomplishment to brag about

Dismembering living unborn children


2 posted on 01/29/2018 5:25:01 PM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: aspasia

So sick. Abortion is big business and has nothing to do with “women’s health.”


3 posted on 01/29/2018 5:25:19 PM PST by WilliamCooper1
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To: aspasia

Abortion is the only right that DemocRats believe to be absolute.


4 posted on 01/29/2018 5:26:00 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: aspasia
Bottom line here: socialism, in practice, will not work unless population is limited and controlled. Today's Democrats/Progressives understand that, and that is why they are absolutely unyielding to any restrictions on abortion.

Remember Biden's compliments on the Chinese policy on one-child?

Progressives have/had a goal of "fundamentally changing" America from its founding concept of Creator-endowed rights to life, liberty and property to one of government-restricted rights to life and liberty; and of a government right to "redistribute" the wages and property of one citizen in favor of another/others by self-appointed elites in government.

The Progressive effort described above has only been disrupted: that goal has not ended.

Progressives are unimpressed by arguments against pain in the unborn. They are impressed only by arguments which further their goals of "changing" America from its foundations to fit their own oppressive ideology.

5 posted on 01/29/2018 5:26:05 PM PST by loveliberty2
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To: aspasia
Of course it didn't pass. Because the Republicans and the pro-life establishment wants to keep it an issue for 2018 and continue the donation gravy train from the base.

All they have to do is pass Ron Paul's 2005 Sanctity of Life Act which would have destroyed Roe vs Wade forever and returned abortion back to the states where it belongs.

But nooooo....

6 posted on 01/29/2018 5:27:15 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (God Bless Attorney General Jeff Sessions! Thank You!)
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To: aspasia

The Democrats have an insatiable lust for the blood of the unborn.


7 posted on 01/29/2018 5:27:53 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: aspasia

Collins and Murkowski joined the filibuster.


8 posted on 01/29/2018 5:28:47 PM PST by map
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To: aspasia

40 plus years of political involvement by Christians in gop politics and what do we have to show for it? The congress won’t even pass a law to protect kids that are essentially viable.

Politics is a suckers game.


9 posted on 01/29/2018 5:29:20 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (Hope and redemption are to be found in the Lord. Not in politics.)
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To: aspasia

Innocent baby blood will hang around their necks into eternity. Senate is a worthless collection of cretins save for a few.


10 posted on 01/29/2018 5:29:39 PM PST by tflabo
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Tell it FRiend.


11 posted on 01/29/2018 5:30:55 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (Hope and redemption are to be found in the Lord. Not in politics.)
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To: aspasia
Donald J.Trump on the Senate’s Failure to Advance the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
12 posted on 01/29/2018 5:31:30 PM PST by aspasia
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To: RKBA Democrat

it is past time to have a conservative party and make the GOP the minority third party


13 posted on 01/29/2018 5:31:45 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: map

The Designated Mavericks for today. If it weren’t them, two more of our “friends” would step forward. We’re being scammed.

Politics is a suckers game.


14 posted on 01/29/2018 5:33:02 PM PST by RKBA Democrat (Hope and redemption are to be found in the Lord. Not in politics.)
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To: silverleaf

Now Now——Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski Voted with the democrats. Anyone surprised?


15 posted on 01/29/2018 5:33:46 PM PST by Revel
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To: aspasia

Ezekiel 16:21, 22 (Fenton translation) - “Were your whoredoms nothing? but that you [Israel] must murder My children, and give them to be passed around as food?”


16 posted on 01/29/2018 5:36:15 PM PST by odawg
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To: aspasia

Pubbies didn’t want the ban.

If they did, arrangements would have been made to pass the bill.


17 posted on 01/29/2018 5:36:39 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
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To: aspasia; fieldmarshaldj; Impy

Nelson Florida, not voting!

Murkowski Alaska. No !


18 posted on 01/29/2018 5:37:27 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT (Committee to Re-Elect the President ( CREEP ))
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To: campaignPete R-CT

It is going to be eye-opening to see who voted against this bill.


19 posted on 01/29/2018 5:40:19 PM PST by odawg
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YEAs ---51
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Capito (R-WV)
Casey (D-PA)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cotton (R-AR)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Daines (R-MT)
Donnelly (D-IN)
Enzi (R-WY)
Ernst (R-IA)
Fischer (R-NE)
Flake (R-AZ)
Gardner (R-CO)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Heller (R-NV)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kennedy (R-LA)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lee (R-UT)
Manchin (D-WV)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Paul (R-KY)
Perdue (R-GA)
Portman (R-OH)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rounds (R-SD)
Rubio (R-FL)
Sasse (R-NE)
Scott (R-SC)
Shelby (R-AL)
Sullivan (R-AK)
Thune (R-SD)
Tillis (R-NC)
Toomey (R-PA)
Wicker (R-MS)
Young (R-IN)
NAYs ---46
Bennet (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Booker (D-NJ)
Brown (D-OH)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Collins (R-ME)
Coons (D-DE)
Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Duckworth (D-IL)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Harris (D-CA)
Hassan (D-NH)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Heitkamp (D-ND)
Hirono (D-HI)
Jones (D-AL)
Kaine (D-VA)
King (I-ME)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Leahy (D-VT)
Markey (D-MA)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Peters (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Smith (D-MN)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-NM)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warner (D-VA)
Warren (D-MA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
Not Voting - 3
Baldwin (D-WI)
McCain (R-AZ)
Nelson (D-FL)

I would say good for Casey, Manchin, and Donnelly...but this was a safe measure and it's certain they were given permission by their leadership to do so.

20 posted on 01/29/2018 5:40:58 PM PST by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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