Four key parts of the abortion bill Schumer will bring up for a vote next week: nationalreview.com/2022/05/schume…
1. How it creates a right to abortion through 9 months of pregnancy in all 50 states:
2. It would strike down almost all state laws on abortion, including parental-consent laws supported by 70% of Americans:
3. It would gut conscience and religious liberty protections:
4. It would create a right for non-doctors to perform abortions:
5. I said four, but here’s a fifth:
Murkowski and Collins point out that it would prohibit state laws banning sex-selective abortions—the killing of baby girls in the womb because they are girls.
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6. It would abolish state laws requiring a 24-hour waiting period prior to obtaining an abortion—measures that Americans back nationally by a 41-point margin, according to Gallup.
news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abor…
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7. It would strike down state laws requiring that abortionists inform women of alternatives to abortion, measures that Americans support by a 77-point margin, according to Gallup.
8. The bill could potentially force 50 states to pay for elective abortions for Medicaid recipients because it bans measures that "directly or indirectly increase the cost of providing abortion services or the cost for obtaining abortion services." web.archive.org/web/2018120520…
Even if WHPA doesn't mandate tax-funded Medicaid abortions, House Democrats unanimously voted in 2021 to kill the Hyde amendment.
Congressional Democrats are probably 1 or 2 Senate seats from ending Hyde: nationalreview.com/2021/07/house-…
9. The WHPA would invalidate Pennsylvania's late-term abortion law under which Kermit Gosnell was convicted for killing 21 infants in utero later than 24 weeks of pregnancy (charges in addition to murders he committed after birth)
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10. It would strike down state partial-birth abortion bans—for example, the one in Georgia—that aren’t the same as the federal partial-birth abortion ban.
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