Dems Plan To Push Abortion Issue As 2nd Anniversary Of Roe Overturning Nears: Report | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Hank Berrien.

    Senate Democrats plan to gin up the abortion issue as the nation nears the second anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade in an effort to win voters in potentially crucial swing states.

    "Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is planning to zero in on reproductive rights next month," Axios reported. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), the No. 3 Senate Democrat, said, "We are certainly going to be talking a lot about [abortion]."

    "I imagine that there'll be some more policy legislation that will be discussed - whether it's on the floor or through committee gatherings," Sen. Ben Ray Lújan (D-NM) echoed.

    Democrats went on the attack after Alabama's Supreme Court ruled in mid-February that embryos are children, thus imperiling the use of in vitro fertilization (IVF). Within a week, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) introduced the ''Access to Family Building Act,'" which would protect the right to IVF treatment; she asked for a unanimous consent vote on her bill, which could have let the bill evade the normal process of review. The bill was blocked by Senate Republicans, who felt the legislation was too broad.

    "If passed, the AFBA would give any adult the statutory right to create a child using any reproductive technology, including the cloning and genetic editing made possible by CRISPR," the Heritage Foundation noted. "Indeed, the bill 'pre-empt[s] any state effort to limit such access,' meaning that states would be helpless to pass common-sense regulations for IVF that guard against ethical abuses. Colorado's prohibition on anonymous gamete donation and Louisiana's embryo protection law, for example, would be in jeopardy if Duckworth's bill becomes law."

    But the Alabama GOP-dominated legislature then passed a bill in early March, signed by Governor Kay Ivey, that protected in vitro fertilization providers from any potential legal liability, making it a moot issue.

    On Monday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) introduced the IVF Protection Act. An interviewer for Bloomberg asked them why they were introducing a national bill after the Alabama legislature had effectively blocked the state's Supreme Court ruling. "Unfortunately, we've seen a number of people try to fearmonger on this very issue," Britt responded, referring to the Democrats' response to the Alabama Supreme Court's ruling. "And so Ted and I came together and we believe this effort should be bi-partisan."


    Cruz then said of Duckworth's bill, "That bill is a different bill. That bill really seeks to backdoor in broader abortion legislation, which is where the Democratic are, but that's not IVF ... It was ostensibly about IVF, but it was written to give the federal government authority over abortion, potentially to strike down laws governing abortion in states all across the country. I get that's the Democrats' agenda."

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With Roe v Wade (originated in 1973) overturned by the US Supreme Court, thereby allowing decisions on abortion legislation completely returned to the states: Where do you find your position on such a "Life and Death" issue for the American People?

  Yes, I approve of the US Supreme Court's decision to reinstate this "medical" issue back to the states' legislative responsibility to regulate.

  No, I believe that every woman should have complete access to abortion on demand.

  This issue is far beyond my intellectual capacity to understand.

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poll#150

With respect to the leaked opinion not yet written for ratification regarding the U.S. Supreme Court's revisiting the original decision of Roe v Wade, whence now nonstop protests have erupted in neighborhoods where U.S. Supreme Court justices live, exhibiting the firm intent to intimidate these officers of the highest court in the land: What action should the federal authorities take?

  Do nothing ... Protests are a fixture of a free society.

  Enforce the law ... Federal codes exist to prohibit any intimidation through the pubic harassment of federal judges, especially Supreme Court justices.

  I have no idea, however, northern Virginia School Board Members must be shielded from protests at all costs.

549 total vote(s)     What's your Opinion?

poll#206

In stripping away the heavy varnish of fakery by the heavy handed Corrupt Corporate Media; in taking a true view of what is real, right now with clear open eyes: How do you see this 46th President of these States United; what is your visceral first impression of Joe Biden after nearly 3 years on the job?

  A good man, wise and kind

  The Socialist President

  A president in praise of his son

  The Non Patriot President

  A successful president

  The Idiot President

  A knowledgeable president

  A corrupt president

  A perfect leader of the Democratic Socialist party

  The man is married to a "Doctor"

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