GOP split on abortion

[FuzzyLumpkins]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0KV21Z20150122

at evangelicals still supporting the party of the oligarchs.

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passed a bill forbidding govt funding for abortion, which has been the case for MANY years, even decades.

[Nbadan]

House Republicans Propose Bill Mandating Ultrasounds Before Abortions
Source: Huffington Post

Shortly after House Republicans had to cancel a vote on an anti-abortion bill that some members found to be too extreme, GOP congressmen on Thursday introduced three new abortion restrictions, including one that would require women to receive an ultrasound procedure before an abortion.

The mandatory ultrasound bill, introduced by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) and co-sponsored by 10 Republican men, compels women to "receive an ultrasound and the opportunity to review the ultrasound before giving informed consent to receive an abortion."

One of the other bills prohibits federal education funds from going to schools with access to an abortion provider on campus, and the other requires states to report information on Medicaid payments to abortion providers.

The ultrasound measure is likely to be the most controversial. Nearly half of U.S. states have passed some kind of mandatory ultrasound bill, but the political backlash in some of those states has been significant.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_6535076.html

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the bill the House wingnuts passed would block companies from tax deducting the expense of employee health plans if the plans covered abortion. they call that taxpayer-funded abortion

Repugs just PROVING they can GOVERN!

Thanks, all y'all redneck, Bible humping Repug wingnut voters.

[Winehole23]

smoke signals to true believers?

Rep. Matt Schaefer (R-Tyler) put forward an amendment that would make it illegal to terminate a pregnancy after 20 weeks, even if a fetus “has a severe and irreversible abnormality,” effectively forcing families with wanted, but unsustainable pregnancies to carry to term at the behest of the state and against the advice of their doctors or their own wishes.


Schaefer said, during debate over his amendment, that suffering is “part of the human condition, since sin entered the world.”


Even some Republican lawmakers opposed Schaefer’s proposal, casting it as a cruel and unnecessary intrusion into the lives of grieving Texans.


“Why should the heavy, blunt hand of the government come into that most heartrending decision?” said Rep. J.D. Sheffield (R-Gatesville), a medical doctor.


Schaefer’s amendment passed, briefly, before state Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer (D-San Antonio) filed a legislative point of order that prompted the bill’s sponsor to pull down the entire piece of legislation for review.

http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/04/24/texas-house-proposal-force-people-carry-term-non-viable-fetuses/