Las Vegas Shooting Triggers GOP Caucus to Pass Legislation

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

As we mourn the lives lost in Las Vegas this week, and welcome Whip Scalise back to Capitol Hill, we are reminded just how precious life is. This message weighed heavily on the hearts of House Republicans as we spoke of the potential of life — especially lives cut short through abortion.

Yesterday, we passed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 36). Also known as Micah’s Law, this bill protects the unborn and provides solutions that address the pain caused by all who are touched by abortion. Its namesake is Micah Pickering, a thriving kindergartner who was born at 20 weeks.

https://www.gop.gov/basic-test-humanity/

Life reads more and more like the Onion each day.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Death is the price of freedom, except in the womb.

 

[untermensche]

Shock doctrine politics.

Use any distraction to ram down your nonsense down everybodies throat.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Shock doctrine politics.

Use any distraction to ram down your nonsense down everybodies throat.

Well, this is the new ACA repeal. Passed the House, but won't pass in the Senate. The Republicans are great at passing legislation that will never become law.

 

[laughing dog]

I don't understand why this bill is call the Micah Pickering bill. That child was born. No one tried to abort him at all. How does the fact he survived and is living what appears a happy life mean that abortions should be limited to 22 weeks?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I don't understand why this bill is call the Micah Pickering bill. That child was born. No one tried to abort him at all. How does the fact he survived and is living what appears a happy life mean that abortions should be limited to 22 weeks?

Because they want to say that is the viability deadline. Of course, the Republicans aren't talking about how to help pay families for the extraordinary hospital costs a birth like Micah's is.

And in general, almost no one gets an abortion after 20 weeks! Why in the heck would you go through the first five months of pregnancy and then abort unless you absolutely had to?

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

I don't understand why this bill is call the Micah Pickering bill. That child was born. No one tried to abort him at all. How does the fact he survived and is living what appears a happy life mean that abortions should be limited to 22 weeks?

Good question. My understanding is that this has to do with supreme court ruling on viability outside the womb and how that has affected abortion laws. Here is a related article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/07/health/premature-babies-22-weeks-viability-study.html

My speculation is the following: As many decades have gone on, we have more and more data on this subject of viability through rare occurrences of extremely premature births and we also have technological and healthcare process improvements that may drive this viability threshold to be lower in gestational age. A decade ago, probably no premature baby could survive at 22 weeks, but now it's the vast majority that die, but some live, meaning it's viable.

I will add that this is a distraction in a sense. We've just had the biggest mass shooting and we get GOP blog page, linking that to "Hey look, abortion!"

In another sense, it's not a distraction since it changes the law.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

As we mourn the lives lost in Las Vegas this week, and welcome Whip Scalise back to Capitol Hill, we are reminded just how precious life is. This message weighed heavily on the hearts of House Republicans as we spoke of the potential of life — especially lives cut short through abortion.

Yesterday, we passed the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 36). Also known as Micah’s Law, this bill protects the unborn and provides solutions that address the pain caused by all who are touched by abortion. Its namesake is Micah Pickering, a thriving kindergartner who was born at 20 weeks.

https://www.gop.gov/basic-test-humanity/

Life reads more and more like the Onion each day.

Every child deserves to be born if I'm a GOPer. And all of them deserve to die for lack of health care too.