Hall of shame

[Don Quixote]

You do understand the difference between an Amendment and Legislation, don't you? First, such an Amendment will never pass 2/3 of the Congress, and if somehow it did by some great miracle, it wouldn't get 3/4 of the states to ratify it.

yet, the gop keeps trying

 

[Damocles]

Legislation -- known as the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act -- was first introduced on July 29, 2010 by New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith (R-4th Dist.). Ryan and Akin signed on as co-sponsors at the time of the bill’s introduction.

That version of the bill prohibited federal funding for abortions, except in certain cases -- including "forcible rape."


But with Democrats still in control of the House, the bill didn't move forward.


After the GOP took control of the House, Smith re-introduced the bill on Jan. 20, 2011. Again, at the time of introduction, Ryan and Akin became co-sponsors, and the legislation still contained the phrase "forcible rape."

Yet that term ignited an outcry among various critics, who said the phrase would exclude victims of statutory rape or rapes involving drugs.

By early February 2011, Smith had agreed to remove the term "forcible" from the legislation. When the House passed the bill in a 251-175 vote on May 4, 2011, the legislation allowed federal funding for abortions in all cases of rape.

The final version of the bill said such funding was permissible if "(1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest; or (2) in the case where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself."

Ryan and Akin voted for the bill...


http://www.politifact.com/new-jerse...yan-and-todd-akin-co-sponsored-bill-limiting/

So you think that not using tax money to pay for abortions is limiting them?

 

[Guns Guns Guns]

The House voted down a bill that would have criminalized abortions in the District of Columbia after 20 weeks of pregnancy, based on research showing that fetuses can feel pain after 20 weeks.


Republicans used the debate to argue that despite the decades-old Supreme Court ruling allowing abortions, Congress should act to spare unborn babies from the pain associated with that procedure.


"The gruesome late-term abortion of unborn children who can feel pain is the greatest atrocity in the United States today," said Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), who sponsored the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, H.R. 3803.


The bill won a 220-154 majority of House members, but Republicans chose to bring up the bill under a suspension of House rules, which required a two-thirds vote for passage.








Predictably, the two-thirds vote requirement doomed the bill from the start.




http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/abortion/241455-house-rejects-bill-limiting-dc-abortions

 

[Guns Guns Guns]

Republicans in the House proposed a bill (HR 1179) called “Respect for Rights of Conscience Act of 2011.”

The bill, introduced by Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb), allowed health care providers and pharmacists to deny birth control to women if it conflicts with their religious or moral convictions.

The Senate version of HR 1179 was known as S. 1467, whose primary sponsor was Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) and was an amendment to Transportation Authorization Bill S. 1813.



The Blunt Amendment was defeated in the Senate on a vote of 51 to 48 on March 1, 2012.


http://www.politicususa.com/the-dirty-thirty-march-2012-edition.html

 

[Guns Guns Guns]

Representative Joe Pitts (R-PA) introduced a bill (HR 358 – the “Protect Life Act”) to allow states to deny insurance coverage for birth control meaning hospitals could deny abortion procedures and transport to a facility that would provide a woman with an abortion even if failure to provide an abortion would mean the death of the woman.


http://www.politicususa.com/the-dirty-thirty-march-2012-edition.html

 

[Guns Guns Guns]

The U.S. House of Representatives passed (by a 234-182 vote) an amendment sponsored by Virginia Foxx (R-NC) prohibiting teaching hospitals from receiving federal funding if they teach doctors how to perform abortions.


http://www.politicususa.com/the-dirty-thirty-march-2012-edition.html

 

[Guns Guns Guns]

In the U.S. House the Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) otherwise known as HR 3541, is being called a “civil rights” bill by its Republican sponsors. Under this bill, physicians would be banned from performing abortions based on the race of the fetus, something that does not happen anyway, apparently, since nobody could offer any evidence that it did.



http://www.politicususa.com/the-dirty-thirty-march-2012-edition.html

 

[Guns Guns Guns]

In the U.S. House of Representatives, the Sanctity of Human Life Act (HR 212) proposed by Rep. Paul Broun’s (R-Ga.) includes language that directly parallels that of the Mississippi personhood amendment.

According to HR 212, “the life of each human being begins with fertilization, cloning, or its functional equivalent…at which time every human being shall have all the legal and constitutional attributes and privileges of personhood.


http://www.politicususa.com/the-dirty-thirty-march-2012-edition.html

 

[Guns Guns Guns]

The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives is attacking the Department of Health and Human Services new guidelines that require insurance companies to cover contraceptive services free of charge.

Committee Chairman Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA) claims the new rules do not protect religious groups who object to contraception. He claims the government is taking, “coercive actions to force people to abandon their religious principles.”

Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) introduced a bill, the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act...


http://www.politicususa.com/the-dirty-thirty-march-2012-edition.html