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All Democrats voted towards a sham invoice that Republicans disguised as defending infants, however what it was actually about was proscribing entry to selection.
Sen. Patty Murray defined the invoice earlier than the vote:
 Republicans are targeted on nearly every part besides the right way to decrease prices and make common individuals’s lives higher. This week, they aren’t rolling out a well being care plan or telling us how they’ll decrease the price of groceries.
As an alternative, Republicans are pushing extra unpopular anti abortion extremism. And Republicans are nonetheless peddling debunked lies about how abortion works and the individuals who get them. And attempting to go, via the U. S. Congress, a disgraceful sham of a invoice that absolutely misrepresents the laborious and painful selections that girls face when a being pregnant is medically difficult.
Let’s discuss concerning the invoice that the Republicans are bringing to the ground as we speak. As a result of it’s actually essential for individuals to know what it’s. Senator Lankford’s invoice, which has 44 co sponsors, would create a brand new authorities mandate that will override the most effective judgment of grieving households who discover out their fetus has a deadly situation.
And it will create new medically pointless boundaries for medical doctors and sufferers at a time when medical doctors have already got their fingers tied relating to primary reproductive well being care. And let’s be clear. It’s already unlawful to kill a child. We all know that. To counsel in any other case is a deliberate and callous smear towards suppliers and sufferers who discover themselves in heartbreaking, traumatic conditions.
It’s heinous. Absurd suggestion now, People are rightly apprehensive about what is going to occur to their reproductive rights below complete Republican management of presidency, and that is as a result of they’re painfully conscious of what’s taking place already each day due to Republican bans, ladies are being denied the care they want.
They’re being informed they need to get sicker first and informed they need to go to a distinct state. They’re informed they’ve to remain pregnant. Even when they do not need to, or even when it kills them. That’s the state of ladies’s well being in states throughout America as we speak. And it’s profoundly alarming that now, Republicans are doubling down right here to make issues even worse.
In the course of the first week of Trump’s presidency, that is what Republicans are targeted on. Attacking ladies, criminalizing abortion, criminalizing medical doctors, and mendacity about abortion. Republicans clearly do not care about the price of groceries. They are not working to make life extra reasonably priced for households earlier than or after a child is born.
The invoice went all the way down to defeat 52-47, nevertheless it speaks volumes about the actual Trump agenda that on day three of his time period, Republicans took motion towards selection.
Senate Democrats are off to a powerful begin, and the American individuals can anticipate the Democrats to face in unity towards this extremism.
Republicans in Congress nonetheless assume you’re silly.
The Republican managed federal authorities has nonetheless proposed nothing to decrease costs. As an alternative, they’re implementing an agenda that they didn’t run on and that many individuals by no means had the prospect to vote on.
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