Sending Abortion Back to the States
By The House plans to vote on legislation banning abortions after 20 weeks on the same day as the annual March for Life next Thursday.
Thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators descend on Washington every year on Jan. 22, which is the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision.
Legislation introduced by Reps. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), titled the “Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act,” would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Supporters of the bill maintain that fetuses can feel pain by the approximate halfway stage of a pregnancy.
I’m sure all of the principled Republican federalists who believe that abortion is a matter reserved to the states will vote this legislation down!