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Tue Feb 18, 2020, 11:51 AM Feb 2020

GOP senators hold hearing on abortion to attack doctors and peddle lies

By Lisa Needham -February 18, 2020 10:40 AM

Republicans are relying on long-debunked claims to stir anti-abortion sentiment and cut women off from health care.

Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony on the latest bill designed to spread lies about later abortions. Sponsored by Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), the "Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act" is a solution in search of a problem.

The hearing itself was a tangle of lies directed at people who find themselves in incredibly vulnerable situations when abortion becomes necessary late in pregnancy.

Sasse's bill would "prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion." If practitioners fail to exercise the "proper degree of care" — something the bill does not define at all — they could face a fine and up to five years of prison time.

From the very start of the hearing, Sasse approached the matter in a disingenuous way. He said that the hearing "is not actually about limiting access to abortion at all" and was merely about making sure an infant "born alive" during a "botched abortion" is given the same care "that would be provided to any other baby at the same gestational stage."

https://americanindependent.com/gop-abortion-lies-ben-sasse-senate-judiciary-committee-hearing-womens-health-care-republicans/

How convenient there party AG is trying his damnedest to take down the DOJ and the Constitution and these same enabling traitors that sat on there hands in a impeachment hearing are more concerned about infringing on a human being's right to privacy, tan the country to pander..........................got it.......................they are still traitors every fucking last one of these republican fascist................

November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough.....................or unless we take to the streets first

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