HOUSE WATCH-10/2/2003 (#1) ("Partial Birth Abortion")

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108th Congress
1st Session
Thursday, October 2, 2003

The House convenes at 10:00 AM.

The House will consider:

Conference Report on S. 3, the "Partial Birth Abortion" bill.

Motion to go to Conference on H.R. 2660, the FY 2004 Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations bill

Inslee Motion to Instruct Conferees on H.R. 6, the Energy bill

Bishop (NY) Motion to Instruct Conferees on H.R. 1, the Medicare bill

Flake Motion to Instruct Conferees on H.R. 1, the Medicare bill

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. This really scares me

As I understand it, the bill not only makes this form of abortion illegal, but has no provisions for the life/health of the woman. Another instance of gender bias. When will people decide that the life of a woman is worth as much as the life of a fetus?

[OldSoldier]

3. When their own mothers start dying

Cruel but true. These people don't give a shit about anything but themselves and their little "save the babies" bullshit. When it has been born it is a baby. Before it has been born it is a fetus, or an embryo, or a zygote. There is no such thing as an "unborn baby."

Guess what, folks: Until one of these RTL pukes' mothers, or their wives, dies of some complication of pregnancy that a third-trimester therapeutic abortion would have prevented, they have to raise their six children alone and no decent woman will go near them (because what decent woman wants to raise six kids she has to bail out of jail all the time?), they'll remain pro-life. Because the concept of a warm, loving Christian family with a daddy, a mommy and a handful of sweet, precious children who go to church every Sunday (funny how they never go near the place the other six days of the week and don't know much of the Bible beyond "before you were born I knew you," ain't it?) is what they care about, not women. Too bad that's not how it is.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. This bill is also supposed to be overbroad wherein lesser procedures

done in the first and second trimesters would be made illegal. It is hoped that this overextension will make the law invalid when it is challenged in the courts. It's frustrating enough that a medical procedure used to preserve the safety and the lives of women will be the catalyst upon which the Right To Life agenda will be launched into outlawing abortion altogether.