House Republicans Kick Off First Week of Congress With 2 Abortion Votes
“We learned nothing from the midterms if this is how we’re going to operate in the first week," Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) warned her colleagues Tuesday.
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After a poor performance in the midterms and a humiliating mess of a Speaker race, House Republicans are, believe it or not, seeking to pass not one but two abortion-related measures in their very first week of House control.
On Monday, Republicans reintroduced the misleadingly titled “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act,” which threatens medical providers with up to five years in prison if they don’t attempt to resuscitate babies allegedly “born alive” after attempted abortions, even if the abortion was performed due to lethal fetal abnormalities. (Medical organizations note that there’s already a 2002 federal law on the topic, and additional bills are unnecessary. Even voters in ruby-red Montana rejected a ballot measure that would have forced doctors to provide care to even nonviable infants against families’ wishes.)
The second vote will be a resolution condemning threats to anti-abortion pregnancy centers. (Not holding my breath for a resolution on actual violence at abortion clinics, including the 2009 murder of Dr. George Tiller and multiple more recent high-profile incidents of arson.)
In short, the GOP is proposing solutions to problems that don’t exist, mainly in order to paint Democrats as the extreme party if they vote no on these bad-faith measures.