Lindsey Graham introduces bill which would ban abortions after 20 weeks
Source: cbs
April 9, 2019 / 2:15 PM / CBS News
Sen. Lindsey Graham, Republican from South Carolina, is once again introducing the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would ban abortions after 20 weeks. Graham has sponsored this bill every year since 2013 only to have it defeated again and again in Congress.
This year might be different, thanks to a conservative majority in the Supreme Court and several restrictive abortion measures being passed in Republican-controlled states across the country. But the bill would still need 60 votes to bypass a filibuster and pass the Senate, an extremely unlikely outcome given that Republicans control only 54 seats in the chamber. And it would also need to pass the House, which now has a substantial Democratic majority.
Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, held a full committee hearing on the legislation before speaking to reporters on Tuesday. Operating under the premise that an unborn child feels pain at 20 weeks, or five months, the legislation only has exceptions for cases of rape or when the mother's life is in danger.
"I think science is on our side," Graham said in the press conference. He offered the fact that surgeons operating on unborn children use anesthesia as evidence that they feel pain. Graham said that Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat who sometimes breaks rank with his party, may be willing to sign onto the bill.
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I would love to ban Lindsey from Congress.
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Mr.Bill
(24,292 posts)it's not even in his universe.
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)Grandstanding for the shitsmears that keep re-electing him.
DownriverDem
(6,228 posts)Another placate the base action. One of the wacky anti abortion laws passed in the states will be before the Supreme Court. This is a RWNJ's dream.
oasis
(49,387 posts)lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)DownriverDem
(6,228 posts)Now they have the courts too. The Supreme Court is known as the Roberts Court. Will Roberts want his name on ending Roe v Wade which has been settled law since 1973? We shall see.
pnwmom
(108,978 posts)It's just P.R.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)the so called enemies of shithole. This will backfire.
Graham is a liar.
DownriverDem
(6,228 posts)who also took Russian money.
DURHAM D
(32,609 posts)Until then what you want does not matter.
efhmc
(14,726 posts)nt
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)Doesn't seem much of an expert in this field.
Mr.Bill
(24,292 posts)Doubt it.
Dazbog
(39 posts)News at 11. Lindsey Graham said to be in a "critical condition" with oxygen starvation, with only seconds to live. Doctors are completely stumped. Experts stumped.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)deny women full autonomy over their own persons. We are not submissive chattel, we are not lesser beings, and we are not baby making machines.
Damn Lindsey Graham and every other man of his like minded, bigoted, misogynistic ilk to the lowest level of their mythical hell, and may they find it to be ruled by a fiendishly vindictive, female demon.
cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)rpannier
(24,329 posts)the senate is engaged in time wasting and grandstanding
LittleGirl
(8,287 posts)if you don't want an abortion, don't get one. They are legal and safe now so let's just leave it that way, mkay?
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)We strip out all the anti-abortion language and then we add:
1) An absolute ban on "abstinence-based sex ed" in every school in the US that receives public funding, and a requirement that every student take and pass "comprehensive sex ed" to graduate from any of these schools.
2) Improvements to Medicaid, WIC, AFDC and other programs designed to assist low-income families.
3) A requirement that all religion-based anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers display on every entry door to their facilities that they will attempt to coerce clients into not getting an abortion.
4) The permanent repeal of the Hyde Amendment.
5) Murdering an abortion clinic employee, regardless of if the murderer knew the victim was an abortion clinic employee, is a federal offense punishable by death by hanging.
6) Inciting another person to murder an abortion clinic employee, whether directly or indirectly, will be treated as if the person doing the inciting had killed the employee himself.
7) A rule in both houses of Congress that any attempt to enter a restrictive abortion law will trigger the simultaneous entry of a restrictive gun law.
8) Streamlining the process of public adoptions. Also, if a woman chooses to give her child up for adoption the government will pay all her medical bills.
9) Allow pregnant women to receive the Child Tax Credit during their pregnancy. For multi-tax-year pregnancies (get pregnant this year, deliver next) a note from a doctor confirming pregnancy will allow the taxpayer to claim the credit in the year of conception. For single-tax-year pregnancies, the taxpayer may claim the credit for this child for the year before the pregnancy began. (Right now you're thinking: Why do that? Well, fair is fair. It wouldn't really be right to tell Mrs. Smith "you got pregnant in December 2020, you get a baby tax credit even though your baby was roughly the size of a pea on January 1" then tell Mrs. Jones "you got pregnant on January 2nd, 2021 , so you don't get an extra year of baby tax credit." Besides, new parents can use the money.)
FM123
(10,053 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)We change the reporting title to The Safe But Rare Abortion Act.
Freddie
(9,265 posts)Is free and covered by all insurance plans, no exceptions. Including vasectomies.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)Do it like the Army does and issue basic contraception - condoms and birth control pills - free of charge at public health district facilities.
Freddie
(9,265 posts)But if youre using your insurance, it should be covered 100% no question.
SunSeeker
(51,557 posts)rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)Okay, I just put it out there. They have pictures of him. We know hes gay and who cares more than Lindsey.
Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)I want someone point blank to ask Lady Lindsey what the fuck he knows about lady parts!
Mike Nelson
(9,956 posts)
read the laws. The Supreme Court wrote about this topic... he wants to disobey the law, or legislate new law - something Republicans say they never want!
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)If not, then he shouldn't worry about abortion.
MiniMe
(21,716 posts)Other than by donating sperm. Yuck, just the thought gives me chills.
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)RandiFan1290
(6,233 posts)Yet, they didn't
they would rather continue the 'controversy'
Maxheader
(4,373 posts)when a fetus is covered by the constitution...a definition never to be defined, never meant to be,
And a winger violates their own religious beliefs by trying to..imho..
Vinca
(50,273 posts)What don't these MEN get about the notion of having control over your own body? If the science becomes available that allows an embryo to be implanted into a male who agrees to rear and support the ensuing child for a minimum of 18 years, abortion legislation MIGHT be taken into consideration.
Freethinker65
(10,021 posts)rzemanfl
(29,557 posts)contraception. The punch line was, "If ya don't playa the game, ya don't maka the rules."
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)My grandma used to say that.
rzemanfl
(29,557 posts)I saw the "When Lindsey sucks..." post above.
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)Catholics like my grandma.
rzemanfl
(29,557 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)nt
BigDemVoter
(4,150 posts)their own bodies? He is obviously a self-loathing gay man who very likely frequents the men's rooms at truck stops. . . Yes, Lindsay was brainwashed at an early age. . .
Hard to tell now whether it's brainwashing or if it's blackmail.
area51
(11,909 posts)then they'll have to ban executions, and if fetuses have a "right to life", they they'll have to immediately pass comprehensive Medicare for All.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)If they did, theyd mix themselves up a bathtub full of Jonestown Kool Aid and have a Republicans-Only Picnic. (Except instead of cyanide, rat poison would be more appropriate.) Their whole goal is to abolish sex for pleasure.
What these assholes do not realize is, every woman in America has the option of sex for pleasure without fear of pregnancy or disease at her disposal right now. Unfortunately for GOP Control Freaks fantasies of male domination of American women, this risk-free sex involves two women and no men.
Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)I'm sure Collins will be concerned...