UPDATED: Trump pushes Senate to vote on 20-week abortion ban

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY JESSIE HELLMANN - 01/19/18 12:53 PM EST

President Trump on Friday called on the Senate to pass a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks.

"I call upon the Senate to pass this important law and send it to my desk for signing," Trump said in his address to the March for Life, an annual march against abortion in Washington, D.C. Trump spoke to attendees from the White House Rose Garden via live satellite video.

The 20-week abortion bill passed the House last year but has not been called for a vote in the Senate, where it's unlikely to pass because of a slim Republican majority.

Trump touted the various anti-abortion policies his administration has enacted, including action the Health and Human Services department took Friday rescinding Obama-era guidance aimed at preventing states from defunding Planned Parenthood.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/369753-trump-pushes-senate-to-vote-on-20-week-abortion-ban

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UPDATE:

JANUARY 19, 2018 / 6:06 AM / UPDATED 13 MINUTES AGO

Trump decries 'permissive' U.S. abortion laws at rally

Ian Simpson
5 MIN READ

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump criticized U.S. abortion laws as among the most permissive in the world in a speech to anti-abortion activists at the annual March for Life on Friday, and pledged his administration would always defend “the right to life.”

The Republican president’s speech, relayed via video link from the White House Rose Garden to thousands gathered on Washington’s National Mall, highlighted his shift in recent years from a supporter of women’s access to abortion to a powerful opponent.

“As you all know, Roe v. Wade has resulted in some of the most permissive abortion laws anywhere in the world,” he said, criticizing the 1973 Supreme Court decision that affirmed a woman’s right to an abortion at most stages of a pregnancy.

Trump said the United States “is one of only seven countries to allow elective late-term abortions,” mentioning China and North Korea. “It is wrong. It has to change.”

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-abortion/trump-decries-permissive-u-s-abortion-laws-at-rally-idUSKBN1F814H

[madaboutharry]

1. What is so pathetic about this

is that Trump couldn't care less about abortion.

[bluestarone]

5. exactly 100% agree

and religious right treat him like Jesus!! HE'S A SICK BASTARD

[Major Nikon]

11. I doubt this is entirely true

We can only guess how many he's financed since he has no doubt paid hush money to keep them secret.

[bettyellen]

13. He told Howard Stern he wanted his wife to abort Tiffany- probably so he wouldnt have to marry her.

He complained how expensive women* were.

*some other disgusting word, but I just can’t quote him

[dalton99a]

15. +1

[SammyWinstonJack]

21. Exactly right.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. The goal is to kill as many women as possible. That is the GOP goal.

[atreides1]

7. The goal, I believe

Is to get as many white babies born as possible! The leaders of some of these anti-abortion groups are more concerned with the white population of the US becoming a minority, then anything else!

Now if in the process, women of color end up dying, for those groups, that's a winning strategy!!!

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Yes it's about ideology

a White Babies Bill. They do nothing that doesn't move their putrid load.

[lark]

17. I think it's much much more than that.

I think they want to end public education along with forcing women to have unwanted babies so they have a poor, desperate workforce of near slaves who will accept any working conditions because there is no better choice and when they get sick or injured they just die. Of course letting women die is part of it, but not the real goal, IMO

[not fooled]

20. Agree completely

that's the logical end point of their agenda.

[niyad]

3. FU, you orange, woman-hating POS.

[MattP]

4. Say's the guy who has unprotected sex with porn stars

[moosewhisperer]

12. I'm sure...

Had she gotten pregnant, I'm sure he would have been totally supportive of her having the baby. *sarcasm*

[bearsfootball516]

6. Can't imagine this gets 60 votes in the Senate.

[groundloop]

9. Exactly, it would take too many Democrats for it to ever have a vote.

And it's such a farce seeing this coming from 45*, he's certainly not pushing this because of any deep held personal beliefs.

[samnsara]

8. they think they are saving fetus' from undue pain and whatever...but...

...wait til abortions are illegal and back alley again..... they think the unborn child will be the priority? Women will die....and abortions wont be compassionate nor careful.

[From the Harem]

14. Why 20 weeks?

Is it less "murder" at 19 weeks than 20 weeks? Or, is it that women with at risk pregnancies can't get an actual diagnosis of their fetus' health conditions until after 20 weeks?

Roe V Wade says women have the right to abortion up to viability. 20 weeks is pre-viability even under the best of circumstances.

Unwanted pregnancies are almost always taken care of before 20 weeks. This proposed bill is just a way for the religious right to force women to have sick and diseased babies, that they would have dearly wanted had the fetus been given a healthy diagnosis, and their own health wasn't also at risk.

[lark]

16. You can't do genetic testing until 19 weeks.

Well, that was true 29 years ago when I was pregnant with my daughter, might be different now?

[Major Nikon]

18. Its still murder at 19 weeks

In fact, every time a teenage boy masturbates it’s morally no different than committing genocide of an entire civilization. The worst of it is there isn’t even a decent Christian burial for the Kleenex®.

[lamp_shade]

19. Just like Harry Reid, I'm sure McConnell has a drawer full of house-passed bills that

will never see a committee... never mind a floor vote. This will be one of them.

[They_Live]

22. I think a lot of things are Pence using Trump

as a megaphone. Trump doesn't give a shit about anything except filling his pockets a constant adulation/attention.

[paleotn]

23. Umm, no.