Democrats Call Trump "Barbaric?"

On Feb. 25, all but three Democratic U.S. senators voted against SB 130.

SB 130  said, "Congress finds the following: If an abortion results in the live birth of an infant, the infant is a legal person for all purposes under the laws of the United States, and entitled to all the protections of such laws."


SB 130 made an additional finding:

"Any infant born alive after an abortion or within a hospital, clinic, or other facility has the same claim to the protection of the law that would arise for any newborn, or for any person who comes to a hospital, clinic, or other facility for screening and treatment or otherwise becomes a patient within its care."

The bill then imposed requirements to protect children born alive after a failed late-term abortion attempt.

"Any health care practitioner present at the time the child is born alive shall:

“(A) exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child as a reasonably diligent and conscientious health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age; and

“(B) following the exercise of skill, care, and diligence required under subparagraph (A), ensure that the child born alive is immediately transported and admitted to a hospital."


SB 130 also provided for mandatory reporting of violations of the act.

"A health care practitioner or any employee of a hospital, a physician’s office, or an abortion clinic who has knowledge of a failure to comply with the requirements of [this Act] shall immediately report the failure to an appropriate State or Federal law enforcement agency, or to both."

And, "Whoever violates subsection (a) shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or both.

"Whoever intentionally performs or attempts to perform an overt act that kills a child born alive described under subsection (a), shall be punished as under section 1111 of this title for intentionally killing or attempting to kill a human being."


SB 130, however, barred prosecution of the child's mother.

"The mother of a child born alive described under subsection (a) may not be prosecuted for a violation of this section, an attempt to violate this section, a conspiracy to violate this section ..."

Here are the names of the Democratic U.S. senators who voted against the bill: Tammy Baldwin, Michael Bennet, Richard Blumenthal, Cory Booker, Sherrod Brown, Maria Cantwell, Ben Cardin, Tom Carper, Chris Coons, Catherine Cortez-Masto, Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Dianne Feinstein, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Maggie Hassan, Martin Heinrich, Mazie Hirono, Tim Kaine, Angus King, Amy Klobuchar, Patrick Leahy, Ed Markey, Bob Menendez, Jeff Merkley, Chris Murphy, Patty Murray, Gary Peters, Jack Reed, Jacky Rosen, Bernie Sanders (I), Brian Schatz, Chuck Schumer, Jeanne Shaheen, Kyrsten Sinema, Tina Smith, Debbie Stabenow, Jon Tester, Tom Udall, Chris Van Hollen, Mark Warner, Elizabeth Warren, Sheldon Whitehouse, Ron Wyden.

Only three Democrats voted in favor of the bill: Joe Manchin, Doug Jones, and Bob Casey Jr.

Illinois' Sen. Duckworth justified her vote against the bill saying, it was "an obvious effort to bully doctors out of giving reproductive care.”

Washington state's Sen. Murray called the bill “clearly anti-doctor, anti-woman and anti-family.” She bleated that the bill would “do nothing except help Republicans advance their goal of denying women their constitutionally protected rights.”

So where do you stand? Is it OK for a mother to tell her doctor to kill her baby AFTER that baby has been born? Is it ever right to kill the innocent?

In Matthew's Gospel we are told the story of Herod and the "innocents":

“Then Herod ... sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under."

It appears Herod has Democratic soulmates in the U.S. Senate.


Posted: QCOline.com   March 7, 2019
Copyright 2019, John Donald O'Shea