{"id":18257,"date":"2020-02-14T14:55:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T22:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=18257"},"modified":"2020-02-15T06:51:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T14:51:01","slug":"mcconnell-tees-up-2-abortion-bills-in-election-year-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/mcconnell-tees-up-2-abortion-bills-in-election-year-push\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell Tees Up 2 Abortion Bills in Election Year Push"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Newsmax – February 13, 2020<\/p>\n

Two abortion bills are being teed up post-recess by\u00a0Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., which might not have the votes to pass but would force vulnerable senators to go on record on the issue,\u00a0according to The Hill.<\/a><\/p>\n

The bills are, per the report:<\/p>\n

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  1. Proposed by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.: Banning abortions after 20 weeks with exceptions for the mother’s life, rape, or incest \u2013 and doctors violating the law would face up to five years in prison.<\/li>\n
  2. Proposed by Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb.: Penalizing doctors who do not\u00a0 “exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Senate passage would require 60 votes and Republicans\u00a0hold just a 53-47 in the chamber. That\u00a0would make them unlikely to be passed, but it would pin vulnerable pro choice Democrats down on the issue in an election year,\u00a0The Hill reported.<\/p>\n

    Republicans will be holding the\u00a0Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) later this month, too, potentially making abortion a boilerplate voting issue in GOP efforts to hold the Senate, if not retake the House.<\/p>\n

    “Unfortunately abortion extremism has grown to such an extent in the Democrat Party that leading Democrats \u2013 including a Democrat presidential candidate \u2013 have not only ruled out banning late-term abortions, they’ve actually refused to rule out infanticide,”\u00a0Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said on the Senate floor Thursday, per the report.<\/p>\n

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    Newsmax – February 13, 2020 Two abortion bills are being teed up post-recess by\u00a0Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., which might not have the votes to pass but would force vulnerable senators to go on record on the issue,\u00a0according to The Hill. The bills are, per the report: Proposed by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.: Banning … Continue reading McConnell Tees Up 2 Abortion Bills in Election Year Push<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[43,14742,14746,14745,10756,14743,14744,8846],"class_list":["post-18257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-watching","tag-abortion","tag-abortion-bills","tag-abortion-extremism","tag-cpac","tag-infanticide","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-sen-ben-sasse","tag-sen-lindsey-graham"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-4Kt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18273,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18257\/revisions\/18273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}