House GOP Drops Plans to Debate, Vote on Anti-Abortion Bill

Last updated on: January 9, 2017 at 11:49 pm by Kyle Cupp

House GOP Drops Plans to Debate, Vote on Anti-Abortion Bill 2017-01-09T23:49:45-05:00 Kyle Cupp

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From The Washington Post:

House Republican leaders abruptly dropped plans late Wednesday to vote on an anti-abortion bill amid a revolt by female GOP lawmakers concerned that the legislation’s restrictive language would once again spoil the party’s chances of broadening its appeal to women and younger voters.

In recent days, as many as two dozen Republicans had raised concerns with the “Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act” that would ban abortions after the 20th week of a pregnancy. Sponsors said that exceptions would be allowed for a woman who is raped, but she could only get the abortion after reporting the rape to law enforcement.

A vote had been scheduled for Thursday to coincide with the annual March for Life, a gathering that brings hundreds of thousands of anti-abortion activists to Washington to mark the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.

I’m not surprised. Maintaining power matters more to the GOP than restricting abortion. The latter serves the former, not the other way around.

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