Several states are seeing bills pushed forward to stop abortion after 20 weeks in the fallout of House Republicans pulling a vote on their federal level Pain Capable Abortion bills.
Ten states already have 20 week abortion bans while pro-abortionists have going to court to block laws in Arizona, Georgia and Idaho.
Ohio Right to Life announced Tuesday that legislators in their state house will introduce a 20 week abortion ban.
“Our Pain-Capable legislation will alter the abortion debate in Ohio,” Stephanie Ranade Krider, the group’s executive director, told the Washington Examiner. “An overwhelming majority of Americans, especially women, support protecting pre-born babies from scalpels and dismemberment. This is priority legislation for Ohio Right to Life and once again, the nation is watching.”
A poll by Quinnipiac University says that 60 percent of Americans oppose a ban on abortions after 20 weeks. Only 33 percent of Americans were opposed to the ban.
The House Republican’s decision to pull the vote at the last minute has been causing problems with pro-life organizations across the country who feel national leadership abandoned them.
In a nod to the pro-abortion lobby, Republicans have backed off a plan to vote on a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks.
Several female Republican representatives quietly worked to kill the vote for the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protect Act Resources bill. North Carolina Representative Renee Ellmers and Indiana Representative Jackie Walorski reportedly provided the greatest opposition to the bill, removing their names as co-sponsors, although they claimed on Facebook they would still vote for the bill.
Supporters of the bill say that the women who objected claimed Republicans couldn’t get votes from women if they passed the measure.
Politico broke the news of the action Wednesday night.
“Republican leadership late Wednesday evening had to completely drop its plans to pass a bill that bans abortions after 20 weeks, and is reverting to old legislation that prohibits taxpayer funding of abortions,” Politico’s Jake Sherman wrote, adding later in his piece, “the new legislation doesn’t stand a chance to become law.”
The vote was scheduled to be held Thursday on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade and the annual March for Life.
A North Carolina woman who was attacked and raped on a business trip is sharing the story of her choice to choose life.
Jennifer Christie won’t reveal the location of the attack other than to say it was at a hotel in a college town. She said that she opened her hotel room door and when she turned to close it, a large man attacked her, struck her in the face and then raped her. She was found unconscious on a staircase.
A month later while working on a cruise ship, she fell ill with dysentery. An ultrasound was conducted during the examination and she discovered she was pregnant.
“I spent the next week listening to a team of very well meaning doctors and nurses console me with how ‘easy’ it would be to ‘take care of it’—to kill the child,” she recalled.
Christie said that it was during that time she turned to God.
“For the first time, I thought of how God can use this, this nightmare I’d endured—use me,” she explained.
“Our little boy may have been conceived in violence, but he is a gift from God—a delicious gift that filled the hole in our family that we never realized was there,” she said. “He made us complete.”
Christie is now speaking out about what she calls the culture of death surrounding abortion.
A bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives that would ban abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy.
The bill is sponsored by Rep. Ted Franks (R-AZ) and Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). The bill is the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The bill is similar to one that passed the House last year but wasn’t allowed to be voted on in the Democrat controlled Senate.
“More than 18,000 ‘very late term’ abortions are performed every year on perfectly healthy unborn babies in America,” Franks asserted in a statement to Life News. “These are innocent and defenseless children who can not only feel pain, but who can survive outside the womb in most cases, and who are torturously killed without even basic anesthesia.”
“Many of them cry and scream as they die, but because it is amniotic fluid going over their vocal cords instead of air, we don’t hear them,” Franks said. “Later term abortion in America has its defenders, but no true or principled defense. The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act seeks to afford basic protection to mothers and their unborn babies entering the sixth month of gestation.”
A survey by the Polling Company says that 64 percent of Americans would support a law banning abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy unless the mother’s life was in danger.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) plans to introduce a similar measure in the Senate before the end of the month.
Pro-abortion groups in Wisconsin are in a tizzy after the sheriff of Milwaukee spoke out in a very pro-life way.
Sheriff David Clarke said that anyone who is protesting with the statement “black lives matter” should be protesting abortion as vigorously as they are supporting Michael Brown or Eric Garner.
“If only these faux protesters were asked by media about all the black on black killing or black babies aborted in US every year,” Clarke told a New York Times journalist.
Clarke didn’t back down when CNN came after him for the statement.
“When I hear these things that black lives matter, the only people who really believe that statement are American police officers who go into American ghettos every day to keep people from killing each other. Alright, so, yes I did send that and I meant it,” Clarke said. “Look, the abortions? If black lives—if they really mattered, that’s where the outrage would be that’s where we’d see protests…”
Clarke, a rare conservative voice in the black community, is not the only black leader speaking out regarding abortion and the “black lives matter” movement.
“Mainstream media does everything it can to protect the most racist institution in America that actually kills for a living—the abortion industry,” said Ryan Bomberger of the Radiance Foundation. “How sincere is the mantra that #BlackLivesMatter if the violent act of abortion and the disproportionate slaughter of unborn minority children is praised as ‘reproductive justice’?”
A British woman has been telling everyone that God is great after Christians gave her the hope to save the life of her child rather than going through with an abortion.
Suzan Briggs, 27, named her now 8-month-old daughter Miracle.
Briggs told the BBC that she had scheduled an abortion because she already had three children and didn’t think she could handle a fourth child. She arrived at the appointment only to be met by members of the pro-life group Abort 67.
“They started preaching the word of God and telling me abortions aren’t good,” she told the BBC. “They told me God would help me and give me strength. I tried not to listen to them, but they were praying for me and I was crying and shaking. The way they talked to me gave me faith and their encouragement made me decide to keep the baby.”
But the group didn’t just talk her out of the abortion and leave her hanging. The group stayed in touch with Briggs, bringing her clothes for the baby and other supplies she needed to get through her pregnancy.
“When I finally saw my daughter, I thought, ‘How could I have wanted to terminate this baby?’” she explained. “Everybody says she’s so cute. When they say that, I thank God I didn’t do it.”
A Florida city who has been harassing pro-life protesters is being taken to court by two women threatened with loitering citations for their protest.
The American Center for Law and Justice says they are representing Judith Minihan and JoAnn O’Connell in a federal suit. The women hold protests and plead with women seeking to kill their children through abortion at the Fort Myers Women’s Health Center.
“When individuals who are driving into the medical office complex stop to speak with Plaintiffs, Plaintiffs will generally hand them literature and speak with them about abortion-related topics, including information about the possible emotional and physical effects of abortion, nearby maternity homes, local and national helplines, and fetal development,” the ACLJ wrote in their complaint.
The women take care to stand on the public sidewalk while they are there and do not block pedestrians from entering the abortionist. However, police have taken to harassing the women.
“Defendant Officer Conticelli stated that he would enforce the loitering ordinance against them if they (1) stood in one spot on the public sidewalk in front of the medical office complex and abortion clinic and did not keep walking on that public sidewalk, (2) approached any vehicles entering or leaving the medical office complex and abortion clinic to hand out literature or speak with the occupants of the vehicle, or (3) blocked vehicular traffic entering or leaving the medical office complex and abortion clinic by handing out literature or talking to the people in vehicles,” the complaint reads.
The women handed the officer a consent decree from a previous lawsuit with the city that said they would not interfere with their pro-life activities but the police continued their threats necessitating the current suit.
The city’s attorney said they would be reviewing the situation.
A group dedicated to lives of unborn children has taken over the space of the abortionist group Planned Parenthood.
40 Days For Life says that over 6,400 children died in the building they are taking over in Bryan/College Station, Texas. The building is the same location where the group first began their program of 40 days of prayer, fasting and peaceful vigil outside abortionists.
“More than 6,400 children lost their lives in this building, but God is making ‘all things new.’ What was once a place of death and despair is now going to be a place of life and hope. We are excited to start using this location to aid the rapid worldwide growth of 40 Days for Life, and to help other cities become abortion-free,” said the movement’s campaign director, Shawn Carney, in a release Thursday. “This news shows what God can accomplish when His people pray.”
Part of the renovation of the building will be a crisis pregnancy center to help women who will chose to give life to their unborn children.
Carney said that 40 Days of Life is committed to working with life-saving pregnancy resource centers.
A report on election polling shows that many of the major victories by pro-life and pro-Christian candidates on Tuesday were a result of an increased turnout by evangelical voters.
Public Opinion Strategies found that nearly 1/3 of the total voters on election day said they were conservative Christians.
Ralph Reed of the Faith & Freedom Coalition said at a press conference it was no accident the turnout of people of faith made a difference at the polls in key races.
“The [evangelical] vote was critical in 2010, it was critical in 2012 and it was critical in 2014. If you look at where the Republican Party was on election night 2008 and you look at where it is today, without a muscular turnout of evangelical voters in these kinds of margins, it just simply does not happen,” Reed said. “Joni Ernst just does not beat Bruce Braley. David Perdue does not avoid a runoff in Georgia yesterday.”
Reed said that the election results from Tuesday should show conservative Christians that their vote matters on election day.
“Conservative voters of faith were the largest constituency in the electorate in 2014,” Reed said. “Their share of the electorate exceeded that of the African-American vote, Hispanic vote, and union vote combined. Religious conservative voters and the issues they care about are here to stay. They will be equally vital in 2016. Politicians of both parties ignore this constituency at their peril.”
America saw victories for life all over the country Tuesday night.
Many Senate candidates who spoke up for the lives of unborn children won resounding victories in the 2014 mid-term elections, bringing a more pro-life agenda to Washington, D.C.
“I think what you saw here are candidates who embrace the values, the values voters embrace them,” Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council said after the results were announced. “I think this was a clear referendum on Barack Obama and his liberal policies, and I think that is going to come with a mandate to the Republicans that they address these issues and address them quickly.”
Several political observers say that Kansas Senator Pat Roberts’ strong advocacy in the election for the lives of unborn child was a factor in the surprisingly large win. Pollsters had expected the race to be close, but most voters for Roberts said his stance for life was one of the reasons they voted for him.
The pro-life Susan B. Anthony list was especially pleased by the win of Joni Ernst in Iowa.
“Ernst is the most significant among the Susan B. Anthony list’s efforts, because this is an unapologetic pro-life woman who will be on the floor for the U.S. Senate advocating for pro-life legislation,” SBAL president Marjorie Dannenfelser said. “And that is an enormous victory for women and the Susan B. Anthony List. Everything that we have done for this election is for gaining the Senate and having a woman be a great spokeswoman in the Senate.”
