Very true, and it doesn't matter what the woman states. SHE is not being held criminally liable by this bill, the Doctor is. Planned Parenthood and their legal team wouldn't even have to devote 10 minutes of their time to get around this.

annfan wrote: Pro-abortion talking points. This vote served a purpose in highlighting the Democrats and their radical pro-death position. The more the Democrats are embarrassed and forced into a defensive position on issues like this, the better. What world do you live in? Democrats are PROUD of their pro-death positions. This didn't embarrass them at all. It actually helped strengthen their Pro-Abortion voter base. Don't let your emotions on Abortion cloud the travesty committed by the fake Pro-Lifers in Congress.

The whole bill was nothing more than a dupe to get votes. It was p!ss poor politics at its worst. Unfortunately so many of us who fight the horrendous practice of abortion/murder, fell for this lame vote getting maneuver by Repubs (who at any time other than election cycles, run away from the issue of abortion).

Your in lala land. If this legislation had any real teeth to it Dems would've blocked it and Repubs would have let them. All this did was let Dems stir up their pro-abortion base and the the Repubs court the Pro-Life voters prior to the coming elections. Abortion facilities don't care WHY someone wants an abortion. They want the fee to perform the abortion and then the really big payoff afterward of chopping the babies up and selling their "Pieces parts" to pharmaceutical and medical research companies. No where will it ever be documented that an abortion is being done for gender selection. It would have been impossible to PROVE in a court of law that the doctor would have known that is was a gender selective abortion.

This bill would not have stopped any abortions, it is nearly impossible to enforce. This was election year bravado by Repubs to play on the emotions of the Pro-Lifers.

Nana is correct. This was a hurried piece of legislation pushed through for electioneering only. It was so full of holes and so completely one sided in its criminalization of the doctor ONLY that no one would have ever been arrested, How do you PROVE that the doctor knew this abortion was for gender purposes only????? It was garbage legislation passed by phony conservatives playing on the emotions of the Pro-Life crowd while trying to win some of the women vote. It proves the Repubs only talk big about abortion during the election year. After getting elected they run from it as fast and far as possible.

Depending on the state one lives, in Doctors don't always perform the abortions they just attend and oversee. This was a political bill and its loopholes were a windfall for Planned Parenthood lawyers.

The Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court was also a "settled case". and supreme law of the land

Correction: WITHOUT the people paying money for the killings the killers would starve to death.

Don't we also prosecute the people who hire the killers in this country? With the people paying money for the killings the killers would starve to death.