House GOP Crushes Bill That Would Protect Against Child Marriage

[babylonsister]

House GOP Crushes Bill That Would Protect Against Child Marriage
Rachel Slajda | December 20, 2010, 8:55AM


On Thursday night, hours before passing the tax cut compromise, House Republicans thwarted a bill that aimed to protect girls around the world from being coerced into child marriage. They opposed it because, they claimed, it might fund abortions.

The bill's sponsor, Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN), was blindsided. After the Child Marriage Protection Act passed the Senate with zero objection on Dec. 1 -- a rare feat these days -- it didn't seem like there was much to worry about.

But just before the vote began, Republican leadership blasted out a "whip alert" to GOP staffers with a message: Vote no. The alert claimed the bill cost too much and that a competing bill, introduced just the day before, would be better.

"There are also concerns that funding will be directed to NGOs that promote and perform abortion and efforts to combat child marriage could be usurped as a way to overturn pro-life laws," the alert read.

And so the bill, which needed a two-thirds vote to pass under the suspended rules, failed. Even some congressmen who sponsored the bill voted no.

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[madrchsod]

1. republican morality..or the lack there of.

so in their heads children getting married is ok with them.

[mainer]

2. We should just call them Republican pedophiles

as in, "so you voted in favor of pedophilia, did you?"

[LuvNewcastle]

3. I guess somebody has to stand up

for the slave traders and the pimps.

[liberal N proud]

4. There goes their claim to the Moral Majority

Last week Jon Stewart stripped them form being able to use 9/11 after they shot down the benefits for the 9/11 First Responders, now we can strip them from being able to call themselves the Moral Majority.

:wtf:

[progressoid]

5. And that excuse will make perfect sense to their knuckle dragging supporters.